Trevor Mepham

Driebergen, October 2011

Plato: art is the basis of education there is no meaning and nothing meaningful can be said about anything creative evolution or original sin unity or uniformity

existential conjunctions intuitive freedom and natural responsibility (ethical individualism) uniqueness and commonality individualism and togetherness goodness and evil beauty and ugliness truth and lies material and non-material life and death

Gandhi “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

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Educational Elements Crafts – ‘knowing understanding’, ‘practised knowing’ Humanities – being and becoming human Arts – making visible what is invisible (Klee) Sciences – seeking for the truth Religion and Spirituality – ‘binding together, again’ (re-ligiato)

Educational Senses sense of self: esteem (Jung, Steiner & many others) sense of other: togetherness (Delors Commission) sense of time: context (Sennett) sense of place: belonging (Maslow) sense of meaning: logos (Frankl)

Eric Schmidt, 2011 “you’re either a boffin or a luvvy” “Over the past century, the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.”

Steve Jobs “The Macintosh turned out so well because the people working on it were musicians, poets and historians – who also happened to be excellent computer scientists.”

Klee “Art is not a matter of reproducing what is visible, but of making things visible.”

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Van Gogh “All right, call them lies if you will, but they are more exact than literal truth.”

Steiner - Theosophy “For the feeling for truth and the power of understanding it are inherent in every human being.”

Rudolf Steiner (1894) “It is only because human individuals are one in spirit that they can live out their lives side by side. The free man lives in confidence that he and any other free man belong to one spiritual world, and that their intentions will harmonize. The free man does not demand agreement from his fellow man, but expects to find it because it is inherent in human nature.”

Van Gogh “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”

Lusseyrans “The I is wealth in the midst of poverty.” Against the Pollution of the I

long, long ago “The teachers in every age have in their hands the rising generation... They (the teachers) must be fully in touch with the world, autonomous in their profession, responsible to the conscience of humanity... Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s lectures, for which we express our special gratitude, have vividly brought home to us the human educational ideal.” Manchester Guardian,

Steiner, Human Values in Education “Today our teachers cannot know at all what will be good in the Waldorf school in five years time, for in these five years they will have learned a great deal and out of the knowledge they will have to judge anew what is good and what is not good.” p.112

Art of Life autonomy & togetherness humour & seriousness creativity & growth depth & sustenance empathy & forgiveness truth & treasure principles & traditions