I have been thinking about alternative education and in doing so I am reading "Understanding Waldorf Education Teaching from the Inside Out" - Jack Petrash. One of the quotes from it is appropriate for the stumpies that will read it.
If one could ask a tree which of its two worlds was the more real- the world above ground, of leaves, blossoms, and sunlight; or that below the ground, where the taproot reaches for who-knows-what- what would it tell us? For those who undertand the tree's message, it clearly states that there are no reality for the one "world" without the other. What is a tree without a taproot? What is a taproot without a tree?
Communication between the two "worlds" of the tree, so necessary for mutual growth and development, is a private inner process. Dirt cannot be sprinkled on a leaf to nourish it; direct sunlight will not benefit a root. Only the tree itself, through its own mysteries, can convey the nourishment of one distant "world" to the farthest reaches of the other (Higgins, Beyond Words, 1970, p. 87).
This ties to Waldorf edu in that a child's emotional life is obviously unseen, and yet a vital part of learning. If the heart is in the learning, the child will care about it, about people and about its surroundings. Kind of cool
Ok, I'm done...just wanted to share...
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