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I understand Hutchings to be saying that with and through the classics, we see the ordinary world with new eyes, i.e. a synthesis between our own vision with that of the classics. -

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A dream can be accomplished with desire, hard work, and often a team of incredible people with the same dream willing to do what it takes to accomplish the dream

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The classics are another opportunity to gain a mentor.  We are able to look at life from another perspective and learn more about life and the way we live it.

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What an awesome thing writing is! We don't have to start over, but instead get to inherit the gift of wisdom in ink neatly packaged between covers.

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This quote exemplifies JAA's philosophy and also Core Value #3. Classics allow the wisdom of the ages to mentor us in understanding the modern world

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Classics can help shape our thoughts or change or perspective on the world. Powerful!

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Reading Classics changes us.  We take on new meaning and understanding of the world and those around us.

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To keep in mind the ends of what we are doing to not get lost in the minutia of daily prep!

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I like the idea that the classics bring us to a new world, but that that world is only allowing wisdom and genius into the ordinary world.

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I really like the idea that "some of their vision becomes our own"  I believe everyone needs a vision and we often get lost in all the activities and happenings of our current place in time, and start to feel as though we are adrift and without purpose.  But when we encounter a vision based on truth in the classics, it speaks to us, grounds us, turns us to light and gives you a push forward.  Something in the visions of these great characters is still in play today-we are part of it and it can become our own.

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I love the thought of seeing the world "through the eyes of wisdom and genius" in the classics. I often find myself trying to apply the wisdom of good characters to everyday situations in my life. I'm reading Little Men and trying to be more like the Bhaers in the way I approach my children.

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This quote reminded me of a mentor I once had who used to say: "Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future, if you are the smartest person seating at a table, you're at the wrong table!" The world is ordinary to us all but you can choose how to look at it, and the right company, can help you to have an extraordinary experience in an ordinary world

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"Novels and characters become so much more real when we can put ourselves in their shoes. We can also gain so much from the trials the characters in the novels go through to then apply to our own lives. It's like having a WWJD moment, but sometimes it might be a WW ___Insert favorite character from the latest novel you're reading do.

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Over the past few years (namely since joining JAA, it's been very therapeutic for me to get lost in the world of classical literature. It feels like I'm having a conversation with a wise therapist who is showing me different or tried and true ways of looking at the world. I begin to see my experiences through different lenses.

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I love that quote. Is is Plato's concept of the good. The idea of the good enlightens everything we do, and as we engage in the greatest philosophers and poets of the ages, we allow their "goodly" vision to start to become ours.

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This phrase stood out to me,  "but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius." The classics often speak of ordinary things, but when it is put together with rich words, it speaks to the soul. It reminded me that plain, the common, can be profound.

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They say you are what you eat. If you "eat" classics, you will become the classics. And they will morph you and you will morph them.

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Robert Hutchings "...and some of their vision became our own." To bring it to teaching, engaging the scholars with classics and helping them grapple with what it means and to understand it is important and relevant today until the moment when they understand and relate so deeply that the heart of it feels as if it incorporated into their own beings. (This happened last week!!!!)

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As we read classics, we embody the lessons & ideas in our everyday lives.

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I liked it! I think it means that through the use of classics we can see ordinary things in a deeper and more beautiful way.

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I have never been a person who has to learn from doing it myself. So many lessons I have learned about relationships, determination, honor, etc. have come from novels. Numerous characters have shaped my own character as I learned from their experience - real or not.

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Learn to open your mind to different perspectives.  Take something ordinary and make it extraordinary by viewing it in a different way than before.  Perhaps, you'll grow in the process.

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I love it. For example, I always knew my mom loved, "Five Little Peppers" but hadn't read it myself since I was a child getting it read aloud until last year for class. When I read it, at first, I wondered what was the big deal? It was full of small everyday vignettes but as they built upon each other, over time it became a book showing how to live the ordinary days in beautiful ways. As the quote said, "it is the ordinary world, transfigured."

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Hindsight sees 20/20 - Meghan

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I agree! - Meghan

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So many classics have been my mentor. Most recently Dickens mother in The Secret Garden. Such a wise, insightful woman. - Meghan

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Love the imagery of this statement. - Meghan

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I've too have learned so many wise words from the classics. - Meghan

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Developing our perspective is one of the most worthwhile pursuits we can be engaged in I think - Meghan

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A word that is used so often but rarely achieved. - Meghan

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- Meghan

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Deep thought. I need to think more about this comment. Thanks for sharing. - Meghan

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I love that you said, it can become our own. What a gift! - Meghan

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The Bhaers have taught me so much! - Meghan

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I love that idea of coming to the table with a classic! - Meghan

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I too have learned so much from others experiences. - Meghan

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I love the idea of getting lost in the classics. So magical and therapeutic I agree. - Meghan

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Interesting how Plato's classic helped you understand this quote even more. This is the classics in action right here. - Meghan

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Some of my favorite classics do exactly this. - Meghan

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Loved this connection it painted such a fun and vivid image in my mind. - Meghan

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This is profound. How the experience and ideas of the classics can be incorporated into our own beings. - Meghan

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Embody is such a powerful words. Wendi your comments ties directly to Kendra's so cool! - Meghan

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Lauren your thought connects directly with Cheryl's I love it! - Meghan

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I couldn't agree more! - Meghan

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I love this...making something ordinary, extraordinary. - Meghan

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That is so special that your mother loved this books as well. Your idea connects with so many of our other colleagues. I think at times we think our life "should" be so much more when it's simplicity is powerful and enough. - Meghan

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Classics have the power to take us to another level or place of wonder, imagination, and deep thought. I am currently reading Jane Eyre and I have seen her describe this in the first few chapter of the book. Although her reality is cruel and unforgiving, she finds a place where she can be a part of something else through reading. She is often immediately intrigued by books that herself or others come across because she knows the power they hold to make her reality a little more tolerable if she can have those few minutes of seeing through the eyes of an author.

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I love that, Tiffany! Yes, and think of all that we learn as well through great art and music? The classics are such a gift.

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Your mentor is very wise.

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Thank you for sharing this idea. I often forget to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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I agree. Classics let us truly see inside the minds of others.

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I agree. Classics let us truly see inside the minds of others.

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I love this Kaitlyn,
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That is so true. It's like the digital logarithms. You get on your feed the stuff you look for, read about it, etc... That's very good.  Raffa

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I love this Katie,
Jennifer A

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So true!  I feel like I am at the right table then when sitting amongst my colleagues of JAA

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So true!  I feel like I am at the right table then when sitting amongst my colleagues of JAA

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We have to become what we are teaching, embody it. I love! - Shaun

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I love this... It often changes the most mundane event to something incredible and moving...

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I love this... It often changes the most mundane event to something incredible and moving...

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I agree. I love that what was theirs is now ours too! - Jesse

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I agree. I love that what was theirs is now ours too! - Jesse

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This is beautiful, Hannah. It takes a village! -Karessa

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Yes! Looking at things from a different place/view and expanding our ways of thinking is a wonderful thing.

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I love this! In class we have also talked about "What would Pollyanna do?" when thinking about things. - Katie T

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I absolutely agree. Not everyone is willing to even listen to another's perspective. I hope classics open ones mind, as I feel mine has been affected and 'opened' by what I have read and contemplated. 

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I absolutely agree. Not everyone is willing to even listen to another's perspective. I hope classics open ones mind, as I feel mine has been affected and 'opened' by what I have read and contemplated. 

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I love this! It makes a difference the support and people around you.

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I love this! It makes a difference the support and people around you.

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I have never heard of this book. It's going on my Amazon wish list right now. It sounds like a book filled with wonders. - Pete

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Wisdom in Ink! I think that too many times the rising generation ignores "ancient wisdom" but we should be building on this neatly packaged wisdom, not ignoring it. - Shaun

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I like this idea of a "synthesis"

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Yes! Those essential questions -- beginning at the end (always paradox!).

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Yes! Those essential questions -- beginning at the end (always paradox!).

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I shudder to think where I would be without reading and sorrow that some people never have the opportunity. - Jesse

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I shudder to think where I would be without reading and sorrow that some people never have the opportunity. - Jesse

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Well said! The simple and ordinary things are truly extraordinary -Emmanuel

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Perspective is so important- I love your idea!

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Classics remind us that we are never alone. The experience of this human experience transcends all eras and epochs.

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Classics remind us that we are never alone. The experience of this human experience transcends all eras and epochs.

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I love this ... yes to different perspectives, and coming outside of ourselves. -Karessa

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I think of writing as the bones that when we touch them, they still bring life, even after the author is gone.

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I like how you said the classics is a mentor. Before JAA I didn't look at a book or character as a mentor.

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I like how you said the classics is a mentor. Before JAA I didn't look at a book or character as a mentor.

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Isn't that strange and amazing that the old helps us to grapple with and understand the new?!

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Isn't that strange and amazing that the old helps us to grapple with and understand the new?!

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I like the idea of opening our minds to see differently--because if all of us could do that in discourse then I feel there would be so much more understanding of one another. --Margret

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I like the idea of opening our minds to see differently--because if all of us could do that in discourse then I feel there would be so much more understanding of one another. --Margret

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I agree, classics allow us to look at real world things from a different perspective

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I too have been similarly affected by the classics. It seems like whenever I read a new one, it becomes one of my favorites! It is a great feeling to really resonate with a character, be it from history or literature. I believe it is how we learn about ourselves through deep contemplation.

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I like this too, what was ordinary and mundane can become complex, mysterious, and require deep contemplation. - Jesse

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I like this too, what was ordinary and mundane can become complex, mysterious, and require deep contemplation. - Jesse

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This was mine. I must not have put my name in the right spot!

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We can learn so much about virtues we want to aspire to from the characters in classics.

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We can learn so much about virtues we want to aspire to from the characters in classics.

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Love this imagery and connection, Shaun...what a true and interesting way to look at it. -Karessa

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I imagine a portal of truth from one world to another when I read this comment. - Elyse

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Amen. And I feel so lucky that I can have empathy and understanding without necessarily going through all the angst and strife personally. The gift of the classics to us is to see more of humanity than we have personally experienced. Thank you. --Margret

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Amen. And I feel so lucky that I can have empathy and understanding without necessarily going through all the angst and strife personally. The gift of the classics to us is to see more of humanity than we have personally experienced. Thank you. --Margret

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wow!  I love this idea of an inheritance in ink and I am enamored with the idea that the words become bones that we can see later 

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wow!  I love this idea of an inheritance in ink and I am enamored with the idea that the words become bones that we can see later 

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I think you're spot on with Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel you see her reading give her a vision that enables her to see a world that the small, cramped souls around her cannot even imagine, and make her a fundamentally better person for reasons that transcend even the moral. -- Nathan

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I think you're spot on with Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel you see her reading give her a vision that enables her to see a world that the small, cramped souls around her cannot even imagine, and make her a fundamentally better person for reasons that transcend even the moral. -- Nathan

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Agree Cheryl - one of my favorite moments in one of my favorite books is when a communist spies discovers there is a God by observing the ear of a child. He admired the beauty and intricacy of that ear - an ordinary ear. And it changed his soul.

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I feel this same way.... you are what you eat. I like it.

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Sometimes it's the seemingly mundane and insignificant that come together to form a beautiful picture.  Separately, they don't seem important.  Together, they are significant.  

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Sometimes it's the seemingly mundane and insignificant that come together to form a beautiful picture.  Separately, they don't seem important.  Together, they are significant.  

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Applying the ventures we read about into our lives is a reflection on how we can learn from others.

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Forgot to add my name — it’s Leslie 😉

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The classics add a lens that we can apply to our ordinary that allow us to experience with the depth of wisdom and genius.

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Yeah... here I am definitely at the right table ;)

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That perspective is fantastic.  We need to keep the end in mind.

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That perspective is fantastic.  We need to keep the end in mind.