Title
Chapel Talk, 2016 January 6 / Tad Roach
Date
January
6
2016
Notes
In discussing the story of a Taliban attack on the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Headmaster Tad Roach speaks of that school's principle's dedication to continue and - in an epiphany-like realization as to the importance of the school's presence to the local community - to expand the work of the school.
Tad speaks of the conditions necessary for epiphany ("humility, generosity, and an understanding that the movement of life, of human rights and justice, of illumination, come through the conversation, collaboration, creativity, and liberation of one generation to another") and allows that schools are sites ripe for epiphanies: "A school is, at its best, a place of regeneration and creativity, a place where teachers inspire students to succeed them, to pursue new lives of generosity, hope, and renewal, ones far surpassing those of their mentors. In other words, a great school must celebrate a teaching ethic and commitment that liberates, ignites, and activates student work, student commitment, and student creativity."
Tad speaks of the conditions necessary for epiphany ("humility, generosity, and an understanding that the movement of life, of human rights and justice, of illumination, come through the conversation, collaboration, creativity, and liberation of one generation to another") and allows that schools are sites ripe for epiphanies: "A school is, at its best, a place of regeneration and creativity, a place where teachers inspire students to succeed them, to pursue new lives of generosity, hope, and renewal, ones far surpassing those of their mentors. In other words, a great school must celebrate a teaching ethic and commitment that liberates, ignites, and activates student work, student commitment, and student creativity."
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