GOODNESS, BEAUTY, TRUTH The 3-Fold Path to Tertiary Education Education in the west in general, and Australia in particular, suffers from three illnesses; one for each of the three ages of childhood, kindergarten, primary and high school. These are increasingly impacting on the body, soul and spirit of our vulnerable young. Their inimical outcomes can […]
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La Pleroma: Timber Culture and Technology
WARMTH OF SOUL – LIGHT OF SPIRIT Timber Culture and Technology – Class 8 – Middle Lesson This last article, up to Class 8 at least, in the Spiritual Syllabus Series, Timber Culture and Technology, is very dear to my heart. I, like Jesus, am the son of a carpenter, as such I have had […]
La Pleroma: 8th Grade Ecology
THE POWER AND THE PASSION Ecology – Class 8 – Middle Lesson If a Steiner high school education is a gateway to life, then the middle lessons are a doorway to Vocation. Main lessons, the first 2 hours of the day, are essentially about self-development, embracing the main academic subjects as they do. The afternoon […]
La Pleroma: 8th Grade Petrosphere
GEOLOGISING IN ALADDIN’S CAVE Petrosphere – Class 8 – Middle Lesson Dear Readers, you all know the story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, and of my part in this 1980s-tpe greed-is-good tale. But there is a hidden chapter with higher moral overtones; one which, if less sensational, has at least a useful application in […]
La Pleroma: 8th Grade Plant Classification
THE LILY AND THE ROSE Plant Classification – Class 8 – Main Lesson Greetings readers, I’m a Main Lesson Book. In a Rudolf Steiner School, I am the tangible evidence of the success or otherwise of that all-important first 2 hours of the school day, that ‘head’ or academic lesson. We Main Lesson Books are […]
La Pleroma: 8th Grade Chemistry
LAMINARS OF LIFE Chemistry – Class 8 – Main Lesson I am Hydros, I run with the rills, the spume and the spills. Quaff of my liquid of life, Quench at my well of wonder – or wander, From river reaches to crescent beaches. Wade in weight-wavelets of resolve; False fear of the future – […]