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When you read a book, you may think through (not always, but this does not count now) everything thought out by the author of the book. Memory is a subconscious reading activity. In memory remain the signs which the etheric body engraved upon the physical body. 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Consequently we should not—as explained in my book “The Education of the Child”—maltreat a child by developing its power of memory. During the first seven years, the essential thing is to leave the child's elastic organism to its own elemental forces, without maltreating it. We should therefore tell a child as much as possible, but without stressing the point that it should unfold its memory power artificially. In regard to the unfolding of memory, the child should instead be left to its own resources. 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Wenn Sie ein Buch vor sich haben, so können Sie alles lesen, alles das denken - manchmal auch nicht, aber das rechne ich jetzt nicht —, was der gedacht hat, der das Buch geschrieben hat. Das Erinnern ist eine unterbewußte Lesetätigkeit; was bleibt, sind Zeichen, die der Ätherleib in den physischen Leib eingegraben hat. Wenn Sie vor Jahren ein Erlebnis gehabt haben, so haben Sie das, was in dem Erlebnis zu erfahren war, durchgemacht. Was bleibt, sind Eindrücke, die der Ätherleib in den physischen Leib hinein macht; und wenn Sie sich jetzt erinnern, so ist das Erinnern ein unterbewußtes Lesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-04-20/p017"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-04-20/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Die geheimen Vorgänge, die im Organismus vor sich gehen, damit der Ätherleib die Zeichen eingraben kann, die der Erinnerung zugrunde liegen, die sind hineingebildet worden während der alten Saturnentwickelung. Es ist in der Tat so, daß wir in unserem Organismus eben diesen geheimen Saturnorganismus tragen; der lebt sich so aus, daß wir in ihm eine Wesenhaftigkeit sehen können, in welche der Ätherleib das einzutragen vermag in Zeichen, was er äußerlich an Erlebnissen hat, um es dann wieder herauszuholen in der Erinnerung. Daß der Mensch diese unterbewußte Schreibetätigkeit ausübt, das hat er im wesentlichen davon her, daß in seinen ersten sieben Lebensjahren der Körper, gerade dasjenige im physischen Leib, was die Einprägungen empfangen soll, noch geschmeidig ist. Deshalb soll man nicht, wie ich zum Beispiel in meiner Schrift über «Die Erziehung des Kindes» aufmerksam gemacht habe, das Kind dadurch malträtieren, daß man sein Gedächtnis ausbildet. In den ersten sieben Jahren handelt es sich darum, daß der geschmeidige Organismus seinen eigenen, elementaren Kräften überlassen bleibt, daß wir ihn da nicht malträtieren. Wir sollen daher dem Kinde möglichst viel erzählen, aber nicht einen allzu großen Wert darauf legen, daß das Kind jetzt schon künstlich das Gedächtnis ausbilden soll, sondern sich selbst überlassen bleibt in bezug auf die Gedächtnisausbildung. In dieser Weise wird Geisteswissenschaft für das pädagogische Leben von ungeheurer Wichtigkeit sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-04-20/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[21],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[22],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}