Education is an encounter

How can pedagogical ideals become effective in everyday life with children? How to make children and adults thrive together? Wolfgang Sassmannshausen views education as a life art and develops its potential from the perspective of transforming interpersonal encounters - because both children and adults are first and foremost one: people in the process of learning and developing. They play with each other in a whirlwind dance of desire and trust, in their unmistakable uniqueness based on freedom. They explore what is possible between the past filled with experience and the impulses coming from the future. For education and development to fulfil the present, we need to be prepared to listen to the flow of time and to seek and open the gateway to the future with head, heart and mind. The author shows how such a search can succeed, based on his long experience in this book.

"The children meet us as we are. At the same time, they trust us to become who we want to be."

Wolfgang Sassmannshausen