Leading The Child To Love The World How Do We Relate The Practical Work Of The Garden To The Growing Child?

摘要

We live in a time of crisis. Crisis is good because it brings us to consciousness. We urgently need a new form of schooling. We need physical work in nature, in the garden and on the farm for the education of today. This is the Pedagogical Process of"Working with Nature" as a healing art. It is the goal of the earth to become the planet of love. This goal can be fulfilled by reconnecting mankind to the spiritual being of nature. Our farming education is an attempt at this reconnection by having thespiritual being of the child meeting the spiritual being of nature. Much of the work of the garden curriculum is a training in perception. When the child works with these natural processes, they are gaining an instinctive feeling for nature that allows them to make proper judgement. Also, when children can care for a piece of land together, they are finding better social habits.