Next in importance to vision, we humans are audio beings (L. audire, to hear). This is a great little earner when associated words like audience, audiophiles and auditors are considered. The faunal evolutionary road to hearing has not been easy. Most of the eons have been spent incarnating the invertebrates – and none of these […]
SKILLS: Storytelling
Genii of Language: Truth Watcher
In the Class 1 Writing in Nature main lesson, I mentioned the power of anthropomorphism in the education of 7-year-olds – as strongly recommended by Rudolf Steiner. On one occasion this took the form of four special Tree Watchers. (These popular story characters also appeared in the Class 1 Local Geography main lesson, see my […]
Genii of Language: Story Re-Telling
Hello readers, I’m the Speech Bird. I have been asked by my master, Ares, winging along out there beyond the sun, to make my contribution to this little education manual. I’m a busy bird, visiting humanity both collectively and individually. Sometimes I’m not allowed into their souls at all, at others there’s a mere glimpse […]