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Scientific concepts, as they are taught today to the youngest people, to children, can be absorbed throughout one's entire life without becoming different in terms of one's imagination through absorbing so many concepts in the sense of today's science. One remains the same. Not only that, but it cannot be denied that one becomes more and more limited, even in intellectual terms, through the ordinary scientific concepts that are increasingly becoming part of general education. The mind, in so far as it is a thinking one, loses the flexibility to adapt to living conditions that are much more complicated than what a person can absorb through ordinary knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man kann naturwissenschaftliche Begriffe, wie sie heute gerade den jüngsten Menschen, den Kindern beigebracht werden, sein ganzes Leben lang aufnehmen, ohne daß man durch dieses Aufnehmen so vieler Begriffe im Sinne der heutigen Wissenschaft anders zu werden braucht in bezug auf sein Vorstellen. Man bleibt derselbe. Ja man bleibt nicht nur derselbe, sondern es ist gar nicht zu leugnen, daß man durch die gewöhnlichen wissenschaftlichen Begriffe, die immer mehr und mehr in die allgemeine Bildung übergehen, sogar in intellektueller Beziehung immer beschränkter wird. Der Geist, insofern er ein denkender ist, verliert die Beweglichkeit, sich hineinzufinden in die Lebensverhältnisse, die viel komplizierter sind als das, was der Mensch durch das gewöhnliche Wissen aufnehmen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/182/1918-04-29/p010"}],"english":["GA 182/1918-04-29/p010"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":216,"en_words":216,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7548,"original_word_count":7273,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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