Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The book, written from countless notebooks, recounts classroom discussions about good and evil, morality, and engaging with complex questions where right and wrong are unclear. These discussions are considered highly relevant to contemporary issues.
I love this description he gives of Wiesel's face. It looks like a map of the world if the world had been wounded but still managed to laugh.
— Episode: Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing
Episode: Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing
The book, written from countless notebooks, recounts classroom discussions about good and evil, morality, and engaging with complex questions where right and wrong are unclear. These discussions are considered highly relevant to contemporary issues.
I love this description he gives of Wiesel's face. It looks like a map of the world if the world had been wounded but still managed to laugh.
when I pick up your book now, Witness, which is lessons from Elie Wiesel's classroom, which you wrote from it sounds like countless notebooks that you took of your time as his student and teaching alongside him to some extent.
The discussions that you describe in that classroom about good and evil and how to be moral and how to engage difference and how to engage serious, complex questions and disagreement where good and evil are not at all clear or what to do with that.
How can you sing? How can you not?
Episode: [Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett
The book, composed from the author's countless notebooks, recounts stories and teachings from Elie Wiesel's classroom, focusing on moral development and engaging with complex questions of good and evil. It was described as relevant to the current questions facing society.
the Holocaust was not his subject, but it was the lens of experience through which he approached all other subjects
the power of memory was the most important ingredient in an educational approach that could lead to a more moral, a more human world
when you encounter stories and really allow them to change you, to change your mind and your heart and your nervous system, your behavior changes
to disagree, to engage with controversy does not mean to refuse to listen
never allow anyone to be humiliated in your presence