Teaching and Learning as Spiritual Exercises.

Teaching and Learning as Spiritual Exercises. Scholarly teaching requires active reflection and inquiry into teaching and bookish man learning, trying to make the learning proces itself transparent. the two instructors and students are actively engaged in questioning this teaching and learning.

Spiritual teaching and learning are also placeed upon the practices of intelligent questioning and reflection. In the the cross of Luke, Jesus encourages his followers, "Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be make opened for you." Spanish soldier-turned-priest Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) instituteed of the Company or Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)