Pedagogy

Montaigne

Through a portrait of Martelange we honor one who, long before universities were established, developed a philosophy, which we now refer to as Educational Science or Pedagogy.

We honor Michel de Montaigne as representative of all pedagogues.

Montaigne or the Ode to Existence

Bliss

Happiness is not in Heaven

and not on Earth either

wherever we soar with ease and joy

is where it might hatch out and re-instruct us

Like a neck brace of pain and suffering

we’d be forced firsthand a little closer

painful only the childhood joys the ones

that crushed beneath disappeared

It’s likely an oversight a error in thought

brooded upon and born

with the hope of making everything better

yet as requisite as a cloudburst

that makes everything afterwards better without the worse

The fallow fruits in the heads of the children

they make us thus and so

Therefore live enjoy yourself by your leave

don’t succumb to mere thinking only

Happiness and knowledge shall increase and multiply

like the children of our joys

which we lay like birds their eggs

into this one world

Our joy lies in the feathers

That while falling out learned to soar

and if soaring be thinking

Then it should be okay