Spirituality in Secondary Schools

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Spirituality in Secondary Schools
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• Mans search for meaning is the primary
  motivation in his life.......
• Victor Frankl
• Mans Search/Meaning

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• A further union, a deeper communion
• T.S. Elliot

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• Recollection makes me present to myself by
  bringing together 2 aspects, or activities, of my
  being as if they were two lenses of a telescope.
  One lens is the basic semblance of my spiritual
  being, the inward soul, the deep will, the
  spiritual intelligence. The other is my outward
  soul, the will engaged in the activities of
  life.....
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  Thomas Merton

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• Human Spirituality is that which transfigures
  and transcends the biology of the human.... by
  this we mean the potential of the human to be
  capable of
• Abstract thought
• Imagination
• Empathy
• Symbolism
• this combined with the capacity to integrate
  experience and knowledge around a significance or
  meaning which goes beyond the pleasure or pain of
  the individual.....
• John Hull, 1996

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• Spirituality through religion has focused on
  individualism, inwardness, asceticism and
  authority thus ensuring attention is taken away
  from the world of real human relations.
• G Guttirrez, J Sobrino
  1988

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• An education system exists to promote the
  development of the person and the community of
  which they form part. It has a personal aspect,
  and a community aspect and both are
  important....
• B McGettrick, 2000

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• By spiritual I do not mean religion, religion
  may affect and influence the spiritual self, but
  then so might art, maths, English, science etc.
  The spiritual self is nourished by human contact
  and inspired by that quality of contact. It is
  informed by knowledge and understanding.
• B
  McGettrick, 2000

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• Poeteering squanders time and time is
  money....
• Barbara Kingsolver, 1997

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• We mostly sit and listen and spit back the
  teachers ideas.
• Pupil
  

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• He writes notes on the board and we write them
  down, then he marks the work in the jotter...
  Why? Its his own work....
• Pupil

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• Students Prayerby Umberto Maturana

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• Dont impose on me what you know,
• I want to explore the unknown
• And be the source of my own discoveries.
• Let the known be my liberation, not my
  slavery
• The world of your truth can be my limitation
• Your wisdom my negation.
• Dont instruct me lets walk together.
• Let my richness begin where yours ends.

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• Show me so that I can stand
• on your shoulders.
• Reveal yourself so that I can be something
  different.
• You believe that every human being
• can love and create.
• I understand, then, your fear
• when I ask you to live according to your
  wisdom.

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• You will not know who I am
• by listening to yourself.
• Dont instruct me let me be.
• Your failure is that I be identical to you.