{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"People today take no account of how it actually was in earlier times. History is really a kind of fable convenante, but that is not what concerns us today. People were educated differently in earlier times. In earlier education, much more consideration was given to the life of the mind. This purely intellectual life has only really emerged in the last four or five centuries. In this, no consideration is given to the fact that the human being is a multi-part entity. The intellect is very capable of being educated in humans; it can develop, but unfortunately it is not capable of development throughout the whole of a person's life, and especially not in our present time cycle. It is bound to the human head, and the head remains capable of development only up to the age of twenty-eight at the most. A person needs to live three times as long as their head is capable of developing. Of course, we are intellectually capable of development in our youth, but we only remain so until around the age of twenty-eight. The rest of our organism remains capable of development throughout the rest of our lives; it also demands something from us throughout our lives. What is given to people today is only head knowledge, not heart knowledge. I call heart knowledge that which speaks to the whole organism, head knowledge that which is only intellectual and speaks only to the head. Now the head must stand in a continuous interrelationship with the heart, morally and spiritually as well. This cannot take place today because we give our children so little for the heart, so to speak, for the whole of the rest of the organism, and only give them something for the head. A person reaches the age of thirty-five. At most, he now has head knowledge; if he is lucky, he has the memory of the head knowledge he absorbs. He remembers purely intellectually what he has acquired. But ask whether today's teaching is able to achieve that later in life one not only remembers by heart what one has learned, but that one lovingly transfers oneself back to what one took in during one's youth with feeling; that one really still has something of what one was taught there, so that one can refresh it anew. But this must become the ideal of spiritual science in education, so that one does not just remember back. Now, today, people do not even do that. They take their exams and then forget what they have studied. But let us assume that people do remember back: is what people had at school a paradise to which one likes to be transported? Do you go back so far that you can say: As I think back, the morning of life shines in for me, and as I have now grown older, becoming older transforms it within me into something new; I have been taught in such a way that I can transform it, I not only remember it, I transform it, it becomes new to me.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":514,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p022","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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Der Intellekt ist sehr bildungsfähig beim Menschen; er kann sich entwickeln, aber er ist leider nicht das ganze Menschenleben hindurch entwickelungsfähig, und insbesondere in unserem heutigen Zeitenzyklus nicht. Er ist an das Haupt des Menschen gebunden, und das Haupt bleibt nur entwickelungsfähig höchstens bis zum achtundzwanzigsten Lebensjahr. Der Mensch hat nötig, dreimal so lange sein Leben auf der Erde zu fristen, als sein Haupt entwickelungsfähig ist. Gewiß, wir sind in unserer Jugend intellektuell entwickelungsfähig, aber wir bleiben es nur bis ungefähr zum achtundzwanzigsten Jahr. Unser übriger Organismus bleibt das ganze übrige Leben hindurch entwickelungsfähig; er verlangt auch das ganze Leben hindurch von uns etwas. Das, was man heute den Menschen gibt, ist nur Kopfwissen, ist kein Herzenswissen. Ich nenne Herzenswissen dasjenige, was zum ganzen Organismus spricht, Kopfwissen dasjenige, was nur intellektuell ist und nur zum Kopfe spricht. Nun muß der Kopf mit dem Herzen in einer fortwährenden Wechselbeziehung auch moralisch, auch seelisch stehen. Das kann heute nicht stattfinden, weil wir unseren Kindern so wenig für das Herz, sozusagen für den ganzen übrigen Organismus geben, und nur etwas für den Kopf geben. Der Mensch wird fünfunddreißig Jahre alt. Jetzt hat er höchstens ein Kopfwissen; wenn es hoch kommt, hat er die Erinnerung an das Kopfwissen, das er aufnimmt. Er erinnert sich rein intellektuell an das, was er sich angeeignet hat. Aber fragen Sie, ob der heutige Unterricht in der Lage ist, das zu erreichen, daß man sich später im Leben nicht nur gedächtnismäßig an das erinnert, was man gelernt hat, sondern daß man sich mit dem Gefühl liebevoll zurückversetzt in dasjenige, was man in der Jugend aufgenommen hat; daß man wirklich noch etwas hat von dem, was einem da beigebracht worden ist, so daß man es neu auffrischen kann. Das muß aber das Ideal werden der Geisteswissenschaft in der Erziehung, daf3 man sich nicht nur zurückerinnert. Nun, heute tut man nicht einmal das. Man hat sein Examen gemacht und vergißt dann, was man geochst hat. Aber nehmen wir den Fall, die Leute erinnern sich zurück: Ist denn das, was die Menschen durch die Schule gehabt haben, ein Paradies, in das man sich gern zurück versetzt? Versetzen Sie sich so zurück, daß Sie sagen: Indem ich zurückdenke, strahlt mir der Lebensmorgen herein, und indem ich jetzt älter geworden bin, verwandelt sich das durch das Altwerden in mir in ein Neues; es ist mir eben so angeeignet worden, daß ich es umwandeln kann, ich erinnere mich nicht nur daran, ich wandele es um, es wird mir neu.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":491,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/182/1918-04-29/p022"}],"english":["GA 182/1918-04-29/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":491,"en_words":514,"ratio":1.05,"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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