Two People Working in Education
Two People Working in Education
They walked together on the path of life, and both worked in education.
Each had his own writings, ideas, scholarly contributions, and distinctive style.
One of them wrote for people what he himself wanted to write.
The other wrote for them what they wanted to know.
The first would say: There are important matters that people ought to know, even if they have not asked about them or requested them. These are the things I write about to enlighten and educate them.
The second would say: I must walk with them through life, enter into their spirituality, their problems, and their relationship with God and with people, and write to them about what occupies their minds, what corrects their faults, purifies their hearts, and strengthens them on the path of God in faith and spirit.
One of them was concerned first and foremost with thought, and in what he wrote, he was careful to address your mind.
The other was concerned first and foremost with the spirit, and in what he wrote, he was careful to address your spirit.
The first believed that thought is what builds the spirit.
The second believed that the spirit is the source of the mind; it produces thought and guides it.
The first taught doctrine and saw it as thought with depth.
The second taught doctrine and saw it as spirituality with depth.
Each of them continued on the path of life in his own way, and each offered his own contribution to the Church. The combined result of what they offered was: thought and spirit.
Was there between these two writers diversity or difference?
Or was what existed between them a form of complementarity? I do not know…..
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