{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The soul content of human beings will become full of life when the principles of spiritual science renew our entire education and our entire spiritual culture. And then the effects of early aging in humanity will become increasingly rare. Anyone who follows the development of humanity knows that before the 15th century, the oldest people were not as old as the youngest people today. The prevalence of old age is increasing to a devastating extent. This old age can only be controlled by creating the right mood, by giving us in our youth what can be transformed in old age, what can become new to us; what we not only remember but transform because we think back to a paradise. As a real elixir of life, spiritual science will also bring this into our immediate lives. The school will become something completely different. The school will become a place where people are aware that they have to take care of the whole of human life. Because what is offered to the child comes out in a completely different way in old age. Certain things are offered to the child in the form, let us say, of learning to look up with admiration and reverence. This comes to expression in later life. In middle age it remains more withdrawn, but in old age it comes to expression in that it gives us the power to have a beneficial effect on children. Or as I once said in a public lecture: Those who have not learned to fold their hands in childhood cannot bless in old age. The inner feeling that is connected with folding the hands reappears in us, as if transformed, in later life in the ability to bless. Today, if we only follow today's education, we have no idea what we are giving the child for later life, in the age from seven to fourteen and even earlier, and especially beyond the age of fourteen, with what is offered to today's youth. This is terribly serious, because it lays the foundation for all the megalomania that is being instilled in young people today, for all the arrogance and prejudice, as if one could somehow already have a “point of view”! Today, even the youngest people say, “That is not my point of view.” Everyone has a point of view. Of course, it is not possible for someone to have a point of view at the age of twenty. This awareness is not encouraged today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":415,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p023","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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Dieser Greisenhaftigkeit ist nur dadurch zu steuern, daß eben diese Stimmung eintritt, daß wir in der Jugend das bekommen, was man im Alter umwandeln kann, was uns neu werden kann; woran wir uns nicht nur erinnern, sondern was wir umwandeln, weil wir wie an ein Paradies zurückdenken. Das wird Geisteswissenschaft als ein wirkliches Lebenselixier auch hineinbringen in das unmittelbare Leben. Die Schule wird zu etwas ganz anderem werden. Die Schule wird zu etwas werden, wo man sich bewußt ist: Man hat da für das ganze Leben des Menschen zu sorgen. Denn dasjenige, was dem Kinde geboten wird, es kommt in einer ganz anderen Weise im Alter heraus. Dem Kinde werden gewisse Dinge geboten in der Form, sagen wir, daß es lernt, mit Bewunderung, mit Ehrfurcht zu etwas aufzusehen. Das tritt im Alter wieder auf. Das bleibt in der mittleren Zeit mehr zurückgezogen, im Alter tritt es auf, indem es uns die Macht gibt, auf Kinder gut zu wirken. Oder wie ich einmal in einem öffentlichen Vortrag gesagt habe: Wer nicht in der Kindheit gelernt hat, die Hände zu falten, kann im Alter nicht segnen. Das innere Gefühl, das mit dem Falten der Hände zusammenhängt, es tritt in uns wie verwandelt im späteren Alter wieder auf in der Fähigkeit, zu segnen. Wir wissen heute gar nicht, wenn wir nur der heutigen Bildung folgen, was wir dem Kinde gerade für das spätere Alter, in dem Alter vom siebenten bis vierzehnten Jahre und noch früher, und gar erst über das vierzehnte Jahr hinaus geben mit dem, was der heutigen Jugend geboten wird. Das ist das furchtbar Ernste, denn da wird der Grund gelegt zu all der Großmannssucht, die heute in die Jugend verpflanzt wird, zu all dem Dünkel und Vorurteil, als ob man schon irgendwie einen «Standpunkt» haben könnte! Man hört es heute von den jüngsten Leuten: Das ist aber nicht mein Standpunkt. - Jeder hat einen Standpunkt. Es geht natürlich nicht, daß man mit zwanzig Jahren einen Standpunkt haben kann. 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