WHAT HAS CHANGED IN SEVEN YEARS?
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

This day in 2010 Rony Schenker wrote –
Why
is the conductive community so mute?
An open letter to you all
An open letter to you all
Dear
colleagues and friends,
As I
do not run my own blog, I've asked Andrew's permission to express and
share my deep concern in public, using this stage. Obviously, he has
agreed.
How
many of us read this blog, and the others that have to do with
Conductive Education? I do not know! I hope, however, that there are
more readers than the 'usual suspects' (Andrew's term) who comment
from time to time. These are so very, very few. These active
participants however, reflect only their own interpretations and
insight, and do not represent the rich and varied professional world
and experience of Conductive Education. I believe ( and I know many),
that among conductors and others involved in the conductive
community, there are intelligent, assertive, and knowledgeable people
whose vision and opinion I respect and cherish. They are Israelis,
Hungarians, British, Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Australians
Chinese, and others. I meet them in conferences, I read their papers,
we correspond, I work closely with them, and I learn. Non-stop
learning. I do not always agree with what they say or do, neither
they with what I do or think. Yet, we talk to each other, we argue,
each of us may defend our own thesis, but we do communicate. We
change ideas, we react to each other, we influence and we are
influenced, and we constantly gain new understandings. We change. We
develop!
So why
am I concerned? Running a blog is a responsibility and a
time-consumer. Ask the bloggers themselves. But writing a comment on
a blog demands nothing but a few minutes' concentration, putting down
in writing what you felt from reading the blog, a stream of thought,
or just a remark. You need not think too deeply or chose your words
selectively. This is the privilege of communication through blogs. It
may be a spontaneous reaction, the shorter-the better. Even the
language should not be a real barrier, as you can be helped by the
Babylon or the Google translator.
I am
concerned because the conductive community, is actually so small
that, if we do not 'use' each other, we will either vanish or sink in
our own, limited puddles.
It is
much less effort to write a comment than to prepare a presentation
for a conference, or even write an abstract. It is cheaper, but it is
still valuable!!! You may be heard publicly and receive feedback, and
tell the world what you do, or what you think, and learn from other
people's experiences. Isn't this quite an attractive deal? (No Duty
Free on the way, I know, but still…).
Ida,
Yuval, Naomi, Avi, Anna, Eva, Julia, Lisa, Mel, Eszter, Lena, Ivan,
Kriszti, Zsofi … the list is long… so very long… Where are
you??? We want to hear you…
I recall an advertisement by the Spastics Society on the London Tube in the mid-80s, showing a child with c.p., with a head pointer and a computer. The subtitle was: 'The fact that I do not speak does not mean I have nothing to say'.
I recall an advertisement by the Spastics Society on the London Tube in the mid-80s, showing a child with c.p., with a head pointer and a computer. The subtitle was: 'The fact that I do not speak does not mean I have nothing to say'.
Rony's
open letter was published here on Conductive World on 22 June
2010. It attracted just three immediate responses. The posting has of
course remained on line, and in the last seven years it has been
accessed 247 times. As far as I know the topic and its serious
implications has not become and issue among those with a concern for
Conductive Education and what happening received little of no
(usually no) shared public analysis of the sort that Rony implied.
Over
that time much water has flowed under many bridges, both personal
and professional. Careers, institutions, have come to their close.
Families and their concerns, however, are eternal. Around them, in
the world as a whole, everything may seems to have changed – but in
so many vital aspects of life everything seem to remain the same.
Here is one of them: Conductive Education is schtum.
One
can understand why conductors in Hungary keep their heads down, more
so every years perhaps. But why conductors elsewhere? Why the
'professionals' and academics? Why non-conductors, especially parents
who were once such vocal drivers for change? Why?
Why
will one be lucky to see much public response to this posting?
Reference
Schencker, R. (2010) Why is the conductive community so mute??? An open letter to you all, Conductive World, 22 June
Reference
Schencker, R. (2010) Why is the conductive community so mute??? An open letter to you all, Conductive World, 22 June
(Along
with comments from Eszter
Horváth Tóthné,
(Sweden), Ida
Igra
(Israel) and Orit
Davidovich
(Israel)
Labels: Awareness, c, Conductors, parents
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