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The Sabbath Classroom: Using Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath as a Model for the Honors Classroom

Friday, November 8, 2013: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Borgne (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Richard Chess , University of North Carolina-Asheville
The honors classroom can be turned into what Heschel, in his book The Sabbath, calls a "sanctuary in time". In such "a sanctuary in time," honors students, liberated from the pressure to "succeed", may discover new ways of thinking, critically and imaginatively, and expressing themselves in a community of equals.