The solution is found in the child, whom we can call
the instrument of the adaptability of humanity. The child
whom we saw born without any special movement, not
only acquires all the human faculties, but also adapts the
being that it constructs to the conditions in his environ-
ment. And this takes place because of the special
psychic form of the child, for the child’s psychic form is
different from that of the adult.
- Montessori
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- John 1:1-3
One must see, at first sight, what does not let itself be seen. And this is invisibility itself. For what first sight misses is the invisible. The flaw, the error of first sight is to see, and not to notice the invisible.
- Derrida
School is not at all like billiards. When you play
billiards you push the ball with a certain force and it
hits the table and bounces off; there’s a definite way
the ball will go, depending on force and direction.
Children are not at all like this, predictable. But
sometimes schools function as if they were; these are
schools with no joy.
- Malaguzzi
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
- John 1:12-13
The trace is the differance which opens appearance
and signification. Articulating the living upon the nonliving
in general, origin of all repetition, origin of ideality …
- Derrida
Something will start to grow inside the child and
suddenly what is happening in the school will move
in that direction. Sometimes what happens starts
inside the adults. School can never be always
predictable. We need to be open to what takes place
and able to change our plans and go with what
might grow at that very moment both inside the
child and inside ourselves.
- Malaguzzi
16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given
- John 1:16
Origin of the experience of space and time, this writing of difference,
this fabric of the trace, permits the difference between space and time to be
articulated, to appear as such, in the unity of an experience …
- Derrida
It’s primarily a spiritual
exercise, and the society is supposed to help us have
the realization. Man should not be in the service of
society, society should be in the service of man. When
man is in the service of society, you have a monster
state, and that’s what is threatening the world at this
minute.
- Joseph Campbell
34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God[i] gives the Spirit without limit.
- John 3:34
In order to make apparent a play that is not comprehended in this philosophical or scientific space, one must think of play in another way. Indeed, this is what I am trying to do within what is already a tradition-that of Nietzsche, for example-but
one which also has its genealogy. On the basis of thinking such as Nietzsche’s (as interpreted by (Eugen) Fink), the concept of play, understood as the play of the world, is no longer play· in the world. That is, it is no longer determined and contained by something, by the space that would comprehend it. I believe that it is only on this basis and on this condition that the concept of play can be reconstructed and reconciled with all of the-if you will-“deconstructive”-type
notions, such as trace and writing …
- Derrida
there is a welcoming of all that happens, an unfolding, and this unfolding, this welcoming, is timeless. All that you welcome appears in this timelessness, and there is a moment when you feel yourself timeless, feel yourself in welcoming, feel yourself in listening, in attention. Because attention has its own taste, its own flavor. There’s attention to something, there’s also attention in which there’s no object: nothing to see, nothing to hear, nothing to teach, only attention.
- Jean Klein
The Lord formed me from the beginning, before he created any-
thing else. …I was there when he set the clouds above, when he
established springs deep in the earth. …And when he marked off the
earth’s foundations, I was the architect at his side. I was his constant
delight, rejoicing always in his presence.
- Proverbs 8:22
In their form and in their grammar, these questions are all turned toward the past: they ask if we already have at our disposal such a concept and if we have ever had any assurance in this regard. To have a concept at one’s disposal, to have assurances with regard to it, this presupposes a closed heritage and the guarantee which is sealed, in some sense, by this heritage. And the word and the notion of the archive seem at first, admittedly, to point toward the past, to refer to the signs of consigned memory, to recall faithfulness to tradition. If we have attempted to underline the past in these questions from the outset, it is also to indicate the direction of another problematic. As much as and more than a thing of the past, before such a thing, the archive should call into question the coming of the future.
- Derrida
According to your faith let it be done to you”
- Mathew 9:29
In an enigmatic sense which will clarify itself perhaps (perhaps, because nothing
should be sure here, for essential reasons), the question of the archive is not, we repeat, a question of the past. This is not the question of a concept dealing with the past which might already be at our disposal or not at our disposal, an archivable concept of the archive. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise and of a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive: if we want to know what this will have meant, we will only know in the times to come. Perhaps. Not tomorrow but in the times to come, later on or perhaps never. A spectral messianicity is at work in the concept of the archive and ties it, like religion, like history, like science itself, to a very singular experience of the promise.
- Derrida
It is necessary to give an immediate response to a
child. Children need to know that we are their
friends, that they can depend on us for the things they
desire, that we can support them in the things that
they have, but also in the things that they dream
about, that they desire.
- Malaguzzi
and the right way,
It turns out, is the one that goes straight through the house
And out the back. By so many systems
As we are involved in, by just so many
Are we set free on an ocean of language that comes to be
Part of us, as though we would ever get away .
The sky is very bright and very wide, and the waves talk to us,
Preparing dreams we’ll have to live with and us
- John Ashbery
8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[a]
- John 3:8
Let the children come to me, don’t stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Mark 10:14
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
- Mathew 6:9-10
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