CEO, European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education And Director, Botin Platform for Innovation in Education Creative Awakenings: Enabling Transformation and Enchantment 31Creative Awakenings: Enabling Transformation and Enchantment30 (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

© STOCKCHILDREN / AlamyChildren artist hands painting multi color with her fingers The arts are quite simply a magic key for some children and within the hands of committed teachers of the arts they are the key to ALL children. Not only do they open the mind of the learner, they then reveal a vast cornucopia of endless delight, challenge and opportunity.” (Sir Tim Brighouse, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education. London) It is, of course, stating the obvious and a truism that being creative lies at the roots of our human nature. But it is such a familiar part of our inner and outer lives we can easily overlook this. As a young girl Helga Weiz witnessed the insidious progress of the holocaust in Prague. Her family were incarcerated in the transit camp of Terezin before being dispatched to the extermination camp of Auschwitz in 1944. On arrival there, pretending to be older than she was, she lied about her age and was sent to the forced labour barracks and not the gas chamb...

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