Be Courageous

"The biggest challenge in following my passion was listening to myself because the environment of teachers in which I found myself and society sees success in the amount of learning of boys and girls. It was always something that I felt inside myself but could not justify or find a way to explain. I always felt like my work was correct for my environment, but it only addressed one part of the child, which was the intellectual part. It was very difficult to listen to myself and say, well for me this is not right, and I'm going to look for someone, somewhere, who must have thought like me before. Steiner says that freedom and the need to belong are sometimes opposites. So I can't be free if I want to be valued. What was valid in my environment was not what I freely felt inside, so that contradiction, I think, was the biggest challenge."