Knowing in Community Joined by the Grace of Great Things

There are a lot of things that called my attention in this chapter because I have never thought about it in the way Palmer addressed but I was fascinating about ...

“If we recovered a sense of the sacred, we would recover our capacity for wonder and surprise, an absolutely essential quality in education.”
I believe that when we are open to be surprise by what we teach it makes a difference in the way we teach those “great things”.
I know that I have taught about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. but this year was completed different. The first thing that I did was to watch his speech “I have a dream”. I remembered that I was watching on the computer and one of my sister was calling me and I did’t hear it and she asked me what I was watching with so attentive. I was so moved of the way he was talking to those people that I even cried because each word that he was saying made sense of what he was living and defending. His pursuit of justice. This day changed the way I teach my students about him. I believe that I see him differently. He also has injected me with the passion to teach about social justice to my students.
“In education especially, this community connects us with what the poet Rilke called the great things of the world and with the grace of great things. We are in community with all of it.”

I believe the grace of great things is the attraction that we have to seek for the marvellous of those things and to be fascinated for it and draw our students into it.