Forget Parkinson's for a moment. What you just read is everything that can be said about teaching children. You need to know the child.
Now zoom back to Parkinson's again. You need to know the person, and respond to that person.
And everywhere else, too.
And you can specially see how things are coming along in society if you see whether or not the "special ed" kids are being treated as real people, and there are immense struggles to help just one of them; or what happens with people who have an unpopular disease.
It's supposed to be like Franny and Paula describe it.
It's supposed to have that spirit.
I don't know how to describe it well
but it is something about people looking at each other and actually seeing each other and it is something about reaching heart to heart to bring out the best in everyone, instead of bringing out their worst, which has something to do with a sort of loving openness to the many different shapes of the heart; and to go out to the front lines of teaching or healing or protecting or rescuing; you see it all, the good the bad the beautiful and the ugly; and it is very important that you come away from it grateful for having seen so much human life up so close.
It ain't easy, but look out -- it is real.