Do silêncio como via longa. Contribuição para uma pedagogia do silêncio

: We have dealt in this article with a theme relatively foreign to portuguese philosophical and educational tradition, although it has lately deserved some attention from religious and spiritual publications. Within this context, we have contended that the experience and practice of silence is one of the conditions for creative meditation in order to develop an initiatory and pedagogical knowledge according to a Bildung that makes each Master of himself. We have dedicated the first part of the paper to the theme of “silence as a long way” emphasizing the importance of seeking not only interior silence but also living in it towards the creative and respectful meditation of the Tradition. In the second part of the article we have dealt with the pedagogy of silence as a type of pedagogy that seeks to teach those who are interested in inner silence with the objective not only of being the crucible where a resonant thought will germinate, but also of the same silence, impelled by a kind of libido educandi , to transform ( Umbildung ) a devotee of the inner silence that, in turn, makes one better understand the word one thinks and says. It is a pedagogy of silence which, by contributing either to an initiation into silence or to the gestation of a Word, may be consonant with a sort of paideia of an interior silence that instigates the Fair Word .