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ly, it is uninteresting. The difficult students shows reality and that is what I appreciate. They are honest.”
“Joseph Beuys, the German artist, said that a teacher bring two elements to education: warmth and time. We can bring warmth in our thinking, feeling and action. We can give the students time to learn without always this rush, rush, rush. The student will remember a teacher’s warmth for a lifetime, long after they have forgotten the lesson.”
Mattke said a teacher creates the knowledge in the moment, making the story of the material alive to the students so that their imagination creates a picture of the subject to compart? with reality. Textbooks are used later only to feed the curiosity that has been stirred. Dare to use one’s fantasy, playfulness and beauty.
A curriculum that is 50 percent creative and artistic feeds the intellectual life in a school, he said. The idea is to live in a school of adventure.
The teacher supports an equilibrium of the cognitive, emotional and spiritual so that a young person will have flexibility in the mind, sensitivity in the feelings and creativity in the soul.
“To come to Rappahannock, to come to Virginia, has been an adventure. There is constant, gentle movement in the mountains. Rappahannock is a place of Zen quietude, Greek beauty and Western activity. It is a place of healing, art and agriculture.”
“Your country has had the good fortune to have politicians who have poetic vision — your Declaration of Independence, your Constitution, the Gettysburg address. America is alive with spirituality. There is much hope here,” he said.
For more information about Waldorf education and Hearthstone, call 937-4920.
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