At The Moment Of Death I Hope

It Takes More Time And Effort And Delicacy To Learn The Silence Of A People Than To Learn Its Sounds. Some People Have A Special Gift For This. Perhaps This Explains Why Some Missionaries, Notwithstanding Their Efforts, Never Come To Speak Properly, To Communicate Delicately Through Silences. Although They "speak With The Accent Of Natives" They Remain Forever Thousands Of Miles Away. The Learning Of The Grammar Of Silence Is An Art Much More Difficult To Learn Than The Grammar Of Sounds.

Exporting Church Employees To Latin America Masks A Universal And Unconscious Fear Of A New Church. North And South American Authorities, Differently Motivated But Equally Fearful, Become Accomplices In Maintaining A Clerical And Irrelevant Church. Sacralizing Employees And Property, This Church Becomes Progressively More Blind To The Possibilities Of Sacralizing Person And Community.

Schools Are Designed On The Assumption That There Is A Secret To Everything In Life; That The Quality Of Life Depends Upon Knowing That Secret; That Secrets Can Only Be Known In Orderly Successions; And That Only Teachers Can Properly Reveal These Secrets. An Individual With A Schooled Mind Conceives Of The World As A Pyramid Of Classified Packages Accessible Only To Those Who Carry The Proper Tags.

We Must Rediscover The Distinction Between Hope And Expectation.

School Prepares For The Alienating Institutionalization Of Life By Teaching The Need To Be Taught.