MESSAGE #421 - ARE YOU GOING TO HELP OR HINDER?

Who can account by ordinary
methods for a Shakespeare, a
Beethoven, or a Michelangelo
and for all the wonder and
renewal of culture such men
bring into human life, so that
history advances and never
does in fact repeat itself?

Yet even of their stature were
small children once – they
did not know but had first to
discover their faculties as
they grew up.

So it is in some degree
with every human being.

Every child is on a
similar voyage of discovery;
as a child, no matter what he
may become later, he is in our
responsible care, to help or
hinder the latent genius of
his being.

Childhood is an awakening
as well as growing process:
it leads from the “sleep”
of infancy, through the
“dream” of the childhood
years, to the “waking to
selfhood” of the adult.

Francis Edmunds, Waldorf educator