The text is a speech on self-growth given by Mr. Sven to Mr. Waldorf on the last day of Lezhi School.
I believe that being a teacher at Waldorf School is the best job.
In the past holiday, I tried to do something else to see if I could do something else. So I worked as a pastry chef in the restaurant: in the bakery, I made cakes for two days and sent cakes for two days. Maybe this is the best job for some people.
But I am still glad to have the opportunity to go back to class. Because I spent six months making it in the cake room. After half a year, I am as good as my boss, and I don't know where to go. The boss said, "Why don't you stay here? You are obviously talented and can make a lot of money. "
However, I learned everything in six months, just baking and buying cakes, but if I continue to do it for six months or six years, I will get tired of thinking about it. But the main teacher will never have such an experience, even when he takes the second round and the third round, it is definitely not a simple repetition.
What does this mean?
We should remember this honor and choose this job-to be a Waldorf teacher. How many people in this world can say that they won't get tired of their jobs? But if you are tired of teaching, it is also the worst job in the world, because nothing tortures children more than a boring teacher.
Of course, a coin has two sides, that is, you can never relax.
You put a lot of energy into learning these things in the eighth grade course. In six months, you will be a teacher of a six-year-old child. You will do a 45-minute morning run and recite eight poems, and you will not relax because of the experience. I have told children stories for 30 years, and I will write them down, because just reading them once is not enough. I hope I can do everything well, as long as I can do everything well! This is the pressure I put on myself. I also often compare the works of parallel classes. I can't help it
If I am not good at something myself, but the teacher in my neighbor's class is good at it, I will be very stressed; On the other hand, it is the pressure from my parents, because I will make a promise at first, but they may not hear what I said. We may have heard some words from Waldorf School and my colleagues before, but if they are disappointed after three months, they will associate me with Waldorf. For them, I am the responsibility of Waldorf Education.
Tu Xiang's teacher will be too worried about his poor performance and then fall ill-this is lucky because other colleagues can see this and help him. If you are a person with fire and wind, things are even more difficult, because no one knows how much energy you consume, because you always act energetic and you don't like yourself with low energy. They don't think there is something wrong with themselves. That's true. All the problems are other people's problems. They arranged to draw a blackboard in the main class.
But one day, their families will leave them, and no one will be with them at this time.
In How to Understand People's Spiritual World, Steiner said that the first thing we should do is to take care of ourselves. If your job makes you run around, you need to work in a different way.
Only a few jobs need to sacrifice our bodies, but that is very few. It is ok to sleep only three hours a day before graduating from drama major; But if you can't sleep before 1 every day, because you have to meditate on every child 15 minutes, it's wrong.
Steiner was very ill when he made this meditation connection on July 5th, 1924, but this summer, he gave speeches three times a day, called three different people every day, and gave different speeches to priests, doctors and teachers.
Because he knows that he needs to say a lot before he leaves.
This speech was made by him and special education teachers-this is therapeutic education, which is a terrible name, because it means that I will cure you if you are sick. These children are physically disabled, but they don't need treatment. In Stayner's view, they just need other people's help to join the WTO, and everyone of us needs it. Disabled people came to this world, perhaps not for themselves, but to help others join the WTO.
The other is mental disorder, that is, the self can not completely enter the body. When you are with people in need, you need to leave yourself and live on your edge. You have to be very sober-it's similar to teaching first grade. You should be able to talk to your colleagues and four children. But how can you do this job well without losing your center? This is why Stayner proposed this meditation.
My personal preference is to put them together. I let the universe grow in my heart. I won't let this photo stand still. I am a circle and a point. If you keep practicing, you will not only focus on the results of points and circles, but the process will come alive. Because this is a thing, a point is also a circle, and a circle is also a point. This social relationship has always played a role in my heart: every child is a point in my heart, and I am also a point on the great circle of this class.
This also suits my relationship with my colleagues.
"When the virtues of individuals are highlighted in the group and the group supports the development of each individual, a healthy group life is established at this time."
When we want to fire a very annoying colleague, we need to think about what we can do to give full play to this colleague's greatest advantages.
In my life, when I was sick, a colleague robbed me of my job. He makes many people unhappy. He is a gloomy colleague and aggressive. I was assigned to supervise his work, but he said I didn't need help.
At first, the whole community decided to invite him to work. I can't say I'm not here, so I'm irresponsible. Although I was afraid that he would yell at me, I took on such a responsibility.
So I say we go for a walk tomorrow! Because I don't want my children to see him yelling at me.
When I was walking, I said that if you work in one place, you will have few friends. Now, because of you, you have no friends. what do you think? He yelled at me, but we continued to work for two years, and he didn't know what I was talking about until two years later.
I owe this colleague and the whole community a chance to work hard. How can I sleep well in the face of such colleagues?
There is a spiritual garden in my heart.
This is a garden, this is your heart and the garden is where I live. There is a tower inside, where I can overlook all the gardens; The garden has a wall, and outsiders can come in, but this is a clear boundary. No one can enter the garden without my permission.
There is a door in the garden that only I can open.
In my garden, there are some fields that I have cultivated carefully. There are many important things I go to every day, perhaps a vegetable field, which nourishes me-reading, cycling and sports, which I won't miss today.
On the other side, because of the forest, the corner I can't see clearly is where I compost, and everything I don't want is put there.
There is also a place where I can rest. There are my chairs, tea and books. It's always comfortable, and it's where I receive my friends.
There are still a few plots of land left uncultivated, and I have been cultivating them. I will go there when I need to work, where I need to dig deeper.
There is another place I call the dark corner. I don't invite others. I built a shelter and I didn't go to see it myself. I only go in when I need darkness.
There are some flowers. They are exquisite and I like them very much.
There are roads in some parts of the whole garden, which used to be difficult in some places.
Living in this spiritual garden, I control everything I come in. Of course, I'm not alone. People keep sending me packages. From a distance, I knew that some packages came with problems, such as signing, going home and opening packages. But I won't do it in the garden of the soul. I opened the package. There is a hut in my garden. I opened the package there to see what was inside. I will decide to throw them in the trash, maybe take one or two, take the beautiful things away and throw away the packaging. The point is that I'm in charge.
Not everything needs to be brought into the soul garden. I'll check the package. For example, let me see if I feel guilty about this colleague. Did I do something? If so, I need to go deep into the fields. But the situation is that I didn't do anything wrong, and I can sleep.
I am hot and cold.
The doctor said that if you continue to work like this, you will get sick.
I said I was fine, and I felt fine. Doctor, seriously, it feels great to be really sick. So I was arranged to go to a nursing home, where I saw the above picture (the garden of the soul).
Four weeks later, my colleagues don't know me, and I no longer feel that I have to participate in everything, because that is his life and what he wants to do.
This is the secret that you won't be tortured in this job. Whether you are working with children or teenagers, it is very valuable if you have a minute to go back to your home. Especially in China, what we are doing is pioneering. You have many opportunities to make good mistakes, so please take care of yourself healthily.