[Oe List ...] Each of You Teach Two

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Thanks, Jaime, for pushing the Teach Two thrust into a whole new, broader realm.  May I invite our colleagues to visit my website:  www.teachtwo.net .  

Warm greetings to all,

Lucille Tessier Chagnon
 
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Lucille T. Chagnon

Literacy Acceleration Consulting

4176 Vivian Street

PO Box 438

Chincoteague, VA 23336-0438

757-336-5047

lifeline248 at aol.com

www.teachtwo.net
 


Each One Cares for Two 

One of my teaching colleagues in the US eastern seaboard promotes a program that invites each reading learner to teach two.  As a pedagogical tool, learning a subject is best accomplished when taught, so learners seek not only a learning partner but another object of pedagogy as well.  Learning is thus reinforced, at least, three times!
 
We borrow this image in our prayerful stance this Holy Week for what happens in the practical import of "each one care for two." In China with the urban single child policy, we witnessed two parents doting on one "little emperor", and the society is now awakening to the rapid greying of its population into senior citizens' wards, so the scramble is on at the governmental level for an adequate response to an unprecedented phenomenon, and the unusual increase of cases of parents taking their children to court for filial neglect!
 
This is beyond the usual injunction of "loving one another".  It is an invitation for everyone to consciously and freely decide to be a support structure of two other beings, whether it be physically, emotionally, mentally or institutionally.
  
Back to the fig tree and the moneychangers, or, if we were given liberty to restate, the entitled perennially dependent on the dole, on the one hand, or the rapacious usurer and speculative investor, on the other, are properly condemned options.  Caring for two, beyond the self-centered replacement of one's self, is an offered option, a rather very Christian one, if we may add, and that's the caring-for-two path, and my invitation to others this way this week.
 
Let us meditate.  Let us contemplate. Let us earnestly pray!


j'aime la vie


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