This poem laments the capitalist values we pass on to our students and argues for an education characterized by connection to and intimate relationship with the deeper truths of the wider ecological world.
Nina Pick is the author of two chapbooks, À Luz and Leaving the Lecture on Dance;her new book, At the Edge of the Dirac Sea, is forthcoming in February 2021 from Shanti Arts. A teacher with ten years of experience in Waldorf and progressive education, she is also an oral historian and a practitioner of mind-body healing.