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I am taking an online course on Dorothee Soelle with Jane Redmont this summer, which is just beginning. One of the books assigned is Soelle's autobiography Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian. I already had a copy and found that I had only read half the book long ago--which was in 1999, since Amazon could "tell" me when I purchased the book. So this past weekend I started reading this book from the first page, not remembering much at all.
Being a former elementary school teacher and someone who always wants to share what I learn, I was interested in Soelle's description of teachers in her chapter "Choosing One's Teachers. . . ."
". . . .I came to know what it means to have a teacher, an experience that appears to have become more and more rare. For what is a teacher? It is a human being who I myself have chosen. Initially, you do not become a teacher as a result of your knowledge and wisdom, but because someone has chosen you to be his or her teacher. The teacher who has been assigned to me must have something to teach, not just specific knowledge but also knowledge that transcends her or him personally. However, a teacher also needs more than a discerning mind, understanding, and knowledge: she must stand for something to testify something. From her/him it should be discernible what one ought to love and what one out to despise." (23)
Soelle, Dorothee. Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
Being a former elementary school teacher and someone who always wants to share what I learn, I was interested in Soelle's description of teachers in her chapter "Choosing One's Teachers. . . ."
". . . .I came to know what it means to have a teacher, an experience that appears to have become more and more rare. For what is a teacher? It is a human being who I myself have chosen. Initially, you do not become a teacher as a result of your knowledge and wisdom, but because someone has chosen you to be his or her teacher. The teacher who has been assigned to me must have something to teach, not just specific knowledge but also knowledge that transcends her or him personally. However, a teacher also needs more than a discerning mind, understanding, and knowledge: she must stand for something to testify something. From her/him it should be discernible what one ought to love and what one out to despise." (23)
Soelle, Dorothee. Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
