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Outreach
The ‹curative-educational attitude› needs to express itself in any social
work, in pastoral care, in the care for the elderly, in the rehabilitation of
mentally ill and physically handicapped people, in the guidance of orphans
and refugees, of suicidal and desperate individuals, in the international
Peace Corps and similar ambitions.
This is the only answer we have today — inasmuch as we still want to be
human beings — for a society dancing on the edge of the abyss. [….]
Only support from person to person — the encounter of a self with another
self — the awareness of another individuality without questioning the
other’s religion, convictions and political background — just the gaze
from eye to eye between two personalities, creates the kind of curative
education which can, in a healing way, counteract the threat to the core
of humanity.
Karl König 1965 in the essay
«The Meaning and Purpose of Curative Educational Work»
The school building
«House of Childhood»
at Camphill Föhrenbühl,
Germany was opened in
1971
The furniture workshop of Camphill Village Hermannsberg, Lake of
Constance, Germany
The Village Community Kimberton Hills, Pennsylvania, USA