Perception, Silence & Being Lame
a SEi meeting of educators (houston)
a meeting of educators
We will begin the session with a brief discussion of prudence and perception, drawing from a handful of quotes selected from Josef Pieper's works on prudence and contemplation. In this discussion we will also touch on various roles and metaphors for teachers, including as healer and cooperative artist, and as shepherd.
The main "event" is a dramatic reading of Flannery O'Connor's The Lame Shall Enter First, followed by active conversation. The Pieper selections will be available, as will the story if necessary. (Please let me know if you need a copy of the short story.)
A pen and notebook are encouraged.
Please rsvp as space will be limited.
Merry Christmas!
...reason is nothing else than the power to understand reality...
...these false prudences arise from covetousness and are by nature akin to it...how impossible just estimate and decision is without a youthful spirit of brave trust and, as it were, a reckless tossing away of anxious self-preservation, a relinquishment of all egoistic bias toward mere confirmation of the self...
~ Josef Pieper, from A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart and Prudence
Perception, Silence & Being Lame: a SEi meeting of educators
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2015, 01:30 PM
1707 Milford Street, Houston, TX, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
"...I'm stronger than you are and I'm going to save you. The good will triumph."
"Not when it ain't true," the boy said. "Not when it ain't right."
"My resolve isn't shaken..."
~ The Lame Shall Enter First
But when they went to the brace shop, they found that the shoe had been made two sizes too small and a new one would not be ready for another ten days. Johnson's temper improved at once. The clerk had obviously made a mistake in the measurements but the boy insisted the foot had grown. He left the shop with a pleased expression, as if, in expanding, the foot had acted on some inspiration of its own. Sheppard's face was haggard.
~ The Lame Shall Enter First
See link below to her collected stories--a book to have in your library!
a Plan
- 1:30 meet at SEi Milford St., intro and brief discussion of perception, prudence, and ideas of the teacher
- 2:15 dramatic reading of The Lame Shall Enter First
- 2:45 break
- 3:15 finish story and discussion
- 4:30 refreshments and finis
Samuel & Erasmus institute
Email: jpresberg@samuelerasmus.org
Website: www.samuelerasmus.org
Phone: 832.693.2889