Prince Cub

Developmental psychology matters to teachers as much as does a lesson plan. Children need more experiences (touching, doing, exploring) than lectures. Support them not by doing things for them, but by doing things with them. So they can eventually do it on their own. And if a child wrestles with something, this isn’t a distraction, but needs the child expresses. In such cases, teachers should reflect on, not react to. Don’t rush children forward. Instead, support them forward.

In the summer the sun is beating down. Boiling hot days follow one after another.

Painter Vincent van Gogh spent one of such summer days in the South of France in 1889. There he made the painting Wheat field behind the hospital of Saint Paul with a reaper or, in brief, The harvest.

The impressionist painting portrays a barely noticeable reaper who is struggling on during the searing heat. Yellow colour prevails. However, the painting has a figurative meaning. People are wheat which is mowed. Our lives are limited in time.