Sarah: One of the key questions in relation to education is: What are you educating? What is the fundamental nature of the student? Gilbert: That’s a great question. It’s really asking about the nature of a human being. What happens in the classroom depends on what you understand a human being to be. I'll give you [...]
And he held up his hands with his two index fingers pointing at each other with a small space between the fingertips. “What happens in that space between teacher and a pupil is all that matters,” he said, “if there's love and intelligence and creativity and wisdom at that point, then everything will be fine. Then [...]
Sarah: I’m really interested in this emotional education, tell us some more about that. Gilbert: Emotional education is really about love. But love is not the only part of the story. You need discipline as well. There needs to be a balance of both love and discipline. There is an analogy of a potter. The potter [...]
Sarah: True being is what it's all about. True education is about educating the human being, which is a spiritual being. That's what our school was founded on. We're going to practice a little bit of the being exercise now. It's a very simple one, and for children there’s obviously a very light touch, nothing forced, [...]
