If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'ReilleyWhat if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?
Mary Rose O'ReilleyWhen I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.
Mary Rose O'ReilleyTeaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?
Mary Rose O'Reilley