Encounters with a mind beyond words
5 min readApr 21, 2024
‘When the student is ready, the teacher will appear’, to quote the theosophists. But for Jes Kerzen, the reverse was true.
Just after gaining a permanent teaching post in a specialist unit for children with speech and language difficulties, came an encounter with a six-year-old autistic boy, Asher, who would change her life.