In
The Rhythms and Rituals of the Child
(Marabout) André Stern strives to deconstruct... almost all Western educational principles.
Interview with an author who did not go to school, whose children do not go to school, with contagious enthusiasm and sometimes disconcerting ideas.
Le Figaro. - In your book, you deconstruct the notion of whim. For you, there is no annoying child: a child who screams because the route between school and home is changed, for example, always has a good reason.
Andrew Stern. -
It must be understood that the world is a particularly vast ocean of impermanence for a child, and that in the middle of this ocean, our rhythms and our rituals are the only islands of permanence at his disposal.
He needs it to regain his strength and return to face obstacles.
A strictly identical route or the same story told ten evenings in a row are islands in the face of anxiety for a child.
By denying the childish whim, you oppose the vision of the child as an arbitrary being. Adults wouldn't know "what to do" better than him. But then you don't think
that the human being...
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