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The School of Radical Attention will be IN RESIDENCY at the National Academy of Design from March 31st to April 25th, offering a slate of public programs on the study and practice of radical attention. In this series of hour-long workshops each inspired by a prominent pedagogical thinker, we bring their vision of FUTURE SCHOOLS to life through somatic practice and guided discussion.
Simone Weil was a mid-century French philosopher and mystic. Her seminal essay “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies With a View to the Love of God” introduces the idea that above all else, attention is what school ought to teach us. This practice explores what happens when we direct, in her words, “empty, waiting” thought towards attention itself.