Being a Student of Silence
/Each day as teachers we can seize an opportunity for the miraculous. We can find the most challenging, irksome student in our class in our mind and heart and befriend them. Before entering the classroom, perhaps we can imagine them sleeping before us as an old person, or a newborn without language or identity, without the problems we know so well. Perhaps we find the opportunity to have a silent conversation with them in this most primordial state, or just as we know them asking “What do you know that I don’t?”