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From Memoirs of the beginnings of Conductive Pedagogy and András Pető , compiled by Dr. Judit Forrai “Pető filled the gap in the field of treating disabled people. Patients arrived from all over the country, inpatients and outpatients, children and adults.

Bela Biszku recalls the time: One of my former classmates, Karoly Szamosi, who worked for Nepszabadsag as a deputy editor suggested that I should go and see Pető.

He told me how he got contact with Pető. After the war, in 1945, Szamosi quite suddenly became paralysed, literally from one day to the next, and although he was taken to lots of doctors and from one institute to another his condition didn’t improve.

He was walking with aid of two crutches and had a kind of machine on his legs when he was told to go and see Pető, because he might be able to do something. So he was taken to see Pető in Alkotas utca.

As soon as Pető saw Szamosi he shouted:

‘Take away those sticks and take off that machine you murderers!’

Szamosi had such a fright that he dropped the sticks and although his muscles and hips were already weakened, the machine was taken off his legs. This was his first meeting with Pető and after that Pető started to work with him. Pető stated that the cause of the paralysis was the side-effects of medication…”

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Photo of Dr. András Pető sent to me by a friend.

Posted by Judit Szathmáry at 09:06 Labels: From Memoirs of the beginnings of Conductive Pedagogy and András Pető


 The truth is that there are multiple levels of activity behind what appears to be a play of incredible magnitude. Would you be surprised to learn that you are writing the lines and until you can figure out a point to the script, there is none? The search for answers to this question intrigues the mind. Cooperation is a natural phenomenon as long as the need to control is absent. The need to control is a learned activity that becomes habitual through the experience of it. If you accept responsibility by making a personal commitment between you and the creative energy that focused you through thought into this existence you may enjoy taking yourself to the edge of extinction for the fun of the adventure…Purity of response to this outweighs educational degrees. Those who know the least of what is going on will hear first. If you are serious in attempting to understand this then if you dare, look at the events that you have already experienced and you will see that this has been the case many times. Now you must decide whether to take back your power, remove the blindfold of your own volition or wait until it’s removed for you. Where do you stand at this pivotal point? You must ask yourself and you must answer yourself! ( Copy of text which I first posted on my previous blog Sourcesense ll, on 1st July 2009.) How did it feel like working at the Petö Institute at the beginning of the 1980's? 'It felt like the smell of freshly cut grass infused with a particular ray of sunshine that carried the light of simplicity, reassurance, calmness and clarity. It felt like a clear sense of focus and determination merged with the gentle breeze of everyday life with its noises, textures and feelings. Bringing this magical combination of peace (a kind of knowing), clarity and compassion into our distinctively perceivable three-dimensional world of time and space reality. It felt like purpose with infinite bounds of possibilities and choices, combined with a sense of seriousness and awe-inspiring joyful responsibility'. J Szathmáry