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« Secularism puts a line between "what I know" and "what I believe," between the realm of the mind and the realm of souls. »
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Régis Debray
The Republic explained to my daughter |
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Régis Debray
The Republic explained to my daughter
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« The so-called battle of the closed against the open, a tandem actually as inseparable as the hot and cold, the shadow and the light, the masculine and the feminine, the earth and the sky, continues to amuse our gallery. This common place is the delight of short minds, who prefer to quote Bergson ("open morality against closed morality") rather than Marcel Duchamp ("closed open door"). »
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Régis Debray
Praise for borders |
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Régis Debray
Praise for borders
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« Certainly. To say the historical context without the spirituality that animates it is to run the risk of devitalizing. To say, conversely, wisdom without the social context that produced it is to run the risk of mystifying. The first abstraction makes the entomologist, if not the Grévin Museum. The second is the guru, if not the Solar Temple. It is bet here on a third way, but which has nothing new in our best school tradition, for a good century: to inform the facts to elaborate its meanings. »
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Régis Debray
Teaching religious fact in secular school |
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Régis Debray
Teaching religious fact in secular school
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