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By Rudolf Steiner

ISBN-10: 0880105119

ISBN-13: 9780880105118

This publication from Rudolf Steiner represent the most complete introductions to his philosophy, psychology, and perform of schooling. He describes the union of technology, artwork, faith, and morality, that's the objective of all his paintings and underlies his entire ides on academic renewal.

Against this historical past, Steiner describe a brand new developmental psychology. in keeping with the advance of children’s realization, he discusses the methods a number of topics will be offered in order that they can develop inwardly in little ones. until teenagers take in the suitable topic within the correct approach and on the correct time, the interior freedom they want rather a lot for contemporary lifestyles won't develop into a part of their nature.

Here is a superb advent to Waldorf schooling.

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The true goal of Greek life Greek Education and the Middle Ages 43 was to make one’s whole earthly existence a matter of habit in this sense. From education until death, human activities were intended to become habitual—to the degree that it would be impossible not to do them. When education is based on such a principle, the natural forces of a child before the change of teeth can be maintained until the end of life. What happened when, through historical circumstances, people poured over from East to West during the Middle Ages and established a new civilization in Central Europe and the West—even in America?

Today, we no longer have a strong historical awareness of that change, but those who study the Middle Ages intimately will recognize the event. The ideal of education was no longer the gymnast, but the orator, whose main training was in speech, an essential quality of soul. The knowledge of how people can work through speech as orators was a product of Roman culture carried into the beginning of the Middle Ages. It represented a change from purely physical education to an education of the soul, which continued to train the body as a secondary activity.

But this involves a complete misunderstanding of what it meant to be a gymnast in Greece. If we nevertheless continue to admire Greek civilization and consider it the highest ideal to be imbued with Greek culture, it will help to remember also that the Greeks were 20 A MODERN ART OF EDUCATION not concerned primarily with developing “spirituality” in human beings. Their only concern was to develop the human body so that, through the harmony of its parts and modes of activity, the body itself would blossom into a manifestation of divine beauty.

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