Portland Greatest Hits, Part Uno

It is the task of educators to show children the path to a meaningful understanding of the world — and not merely to hollow oversimplifications or concepts that are remote and abstract. Knowledge must nourish and to do so it must be inexhaustible. It must be based on a living relationship to the world… Abstractions are complete in themselves, they cannot grow and transform as living ideas. — Christopher Clouder and Martyn Rawson, Waldorf Education; Rudolf Steiner’s ideas in practive