#12.21 - What does online content delivery mean?

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When I signed up to teach as a Steiner teachers... I learned many things - not least the existence of the four bodies. The need to do, feel and think. And that the sensory world was very important. It was how we related to the world around us. Everything I did made sure that the children received as much as they could. Cooking, going out, enjoying the world around them so that they never lost hope and that they would contribute to it with their own knowing - their own destinies. That was the purpose.

To see someone moved by passion. I reject the naysayers who say that you shouldn't follow your passions - that it is ok to end up as a dead eyed fish in a job you detest and only do it because you need the paycheck. That is the road to perdition. 

Anyhow, I am not a Luddite. I helped the Singaporean government build its first website and put its press releases online. Even before there was an internet. It is ludicrous. 

Whatever I do MUST be to put the well being of the children first. They must at all times feel the beauty of the world and not be trotting things out pointlessly. It is not just for the sake of learning. It is also for the sake of discovering the beauty in life. It was meant to be the flowering of Lower School. I experience a deep grief over this but there is no point talking about it because no one wants to know. Because no one else can see it. I find it so difficult but that's ok. I understand I am going to be alone in this.

It's fine.

So I must just continue doing this then.

The teacher interprets the content to make it relevant, to enchant, to intrigue, to introduce. This is NOT what we are going to get with the online learning because children do not have that capacity to do it for themselves. 

So I am just going to have to see how to create this.

If I do nutrition perhaps and the human body...? History and they can cook historical foods? Art and the Renaissance? Science and experiments they can do at home? Hard to know - but what they need now. Now they need to feel a sense of grounding and possibility.

Beauty. What they need is beauty.

Whatever happens, I need to ensure that they get that. Geometry. The Human Body. The Franks. Cooking French food. 

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