010. The Point and the Line: Or how Euclid can make us travel other dimensions without leaving the classroom

Morning Meeting:

Lucia shared with us a little piece of wisdom about how to tie your shoes right. Yes! We are learning that at the MPC too! We also talked about our commitment to be on-time for our Morning Meetings since some of the pioneers usually come late to them. We agreed that one of the best things to do is to  give them feedback about how we are affected by them. After this we had individual work time and I polished (actually ended) my essay wheter Kand and Twain agree or not. I title it: Prussian Enlightenment meets Southern Corn Pone Opinions.

Euclid:

Well the day that we should start reading Euclid finally arrived. And we started with the most basic: his definitions. You can’t believe how amazing this dialogue was, tiring too, but mainly amazing. We dialogued about an hour about the meaning of his concept of Point and his concept of Line. Before this I couldn't believe how something apparently so trivial can lead you to have an amazing conversation about the nature of the universe and its dimensions. Respect this last word we agreed not to use modern concepts or conceptions about geometry since they might handicap us to acquire a better and honest understanding of Euclid's work. At the end of this dialogue I ended both enthusiastic about Euclid, worried about going really slow and extremely tired even with a headache.