Comments on CONDUCTIVE WORLD: The morning after

Dear Andrew, Susie and Judit, I must admit, that n...

2009-11-06T17:32:14.369Z

Dear Andrew, Susie and Judit,
I must admit, that no connotation of Israeli families being at the Peto Institute of the Plints resemblance to beds in concentration camps can I recall. That does not mean that all have shared their feelings with us, but yet, if it were prominent, I would have known.
Shouldn't we forget, that after all, in a very different context, this piece of furniture has been dressed with a new meaning.
We should however, bare in mind this historical information, whether it is true or not, in order to me a more sensitive service provider.
As to the discussion whether we should or should not use the Plints, I want to make my point clear:Any piece of furniture, aid, technology (wheter low or high) ,offered to a child, the family etc. should be considered as legitimate if enhancing the client motivation and participation.
Yet, sometimes, the "special equipment" typical for conductive education, may mislead the viewer to believe that this is what CE is all about. We know it isn't. We know that a good conductor does not really need all these stuff to conduct. It is only facilitator which may be very helpful, or not, depends on the context, environment etc.
I truly believe that we should prefer conductive education without Plints on Plints without conductive education

In the morning after Guy Fawkes Night I woke up re...

2009-11-06T17:30:49.779Z

In the morning after Guy Fawkes Night I woke up rested and content. We didn’t have any rain, but the skies were warning us for possible rainfalls. My morning walk in the forest refreshed my soul.
Good start for the day ahead I thought….
Reading your posts reminded me of the past…. those crackling and sparkling lights of yesterdays Conductive Education’s projects, which only left the ashes of the might have been behind, also reminded me of the false premises and misinterpretations they were built on.
One of them is the wooden furniture fetish as you stated it in this posting. There is no such thing in CE… if there was it limits CE to wooden furniture only.
The word fetish is inappropriate in this context. Those projects bought wooden furniture and a conductor who was squeezed to the end.
It was done for only to the financial benefit of the schools. Those days’ schools could get more funding if they came up with something new and parents also demanded it. It had nothing to do with CE and helping children.
This posting, which is the follow up of your previous posting also, have no relevance to the viability of the plinths and any wooden Petö equipments.
Judit Szathmáry conductor

When I suggested " come to a conference take away ...

2009-11-06T12:33:57.913Z

When I suggested " come to a conference take away a free gift" I was thinking more about the free gifts stuck on to the outside of a comic or tucked inside the cornflake box, rather than being kind or of recycling.

I was thinking about the free gift that is a five minute wonder. Something that, if it doesn't break immediately and a plinth is hardly like to do that, after a day or two rattles to the bottom of the toy box never to be played with again or perhaps discovered again in a couple of years. Just like like our stack of plinths in the garage and the other pile in the cellar!

Here in Nürnberg we are a huge charity with lots of different strings to its bow. Those plinths will slowly and surely find new homes and as you say when they go we must make sure they don't take any Mickey Mouse messages with them.