{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-01-17/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Our schools are terrible in this respect. The schoolmasters, who actually correct every seemingly clumsy but at least original thought in terms of convention, commit great crimes in school. One should search for every awkward but substantially individual sentence that any boy or girl writes at school. One should use it to start discussions at school and not use the cursed red ink to replace what comes out of youthful individuality with convention. For today it is most important to look at what comes out of youthful individualities. Perhaps it will reveal itself in a way that we do not always find comfortable, that we easily see as flawed. If one wanted to correct Goethe's youthful letters with the eye of a high school teacher, then many things would have to be corrected! The Austrian poet Robert Hamerling received the worst grade in the “German essay” in his teaching examination! And there is still some truth to what Hebbel wrote in his diary, as I have often mentioned: he wanted to write a drama with the motif that a high school teacher of the higher grades in particular has a student who is the reincarnation of Plato, with whom he reads Plato in class; then the teacher finds that this “reincarnation of Plato” does not understand the slightest thing about Plato! The poet Friedrich Hebbel noted down this motif for a drama that was then not carried out. But there is some truth to it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fifth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiatory Science and Moral Renewal in Modern Society","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Denn heute ist es das Allerwichtigste, darauf hinzuschauen, was aus den jugendlichen Individualitäten herauskommt. Vielleicht wird es sich in einer Weise enthüllen, wie es uns nicht immer bequem ist, wie wir es leicht als fehlerhaft ansehen. Wollte man die Goetheschen Jugendbriefe mit dem Auge eines Gymnasiallehrers korrigieren, dann müßten viele Dinge korrigiert werden! Der österreichische Dichter Robert Hamerling hat bei seiner Lehramtsprüfung die schlechteste Zensur im «deutschen Aufsatz» gehabt! Und es bleibt ja doch etwas Wahres an dem, was Hebbel sich in sein Tagebuch geschrieben hat, ich habe es öfters erwähnt: Er wollte ein Drama schreiben mit dem Motiv, daß gerade ein Gymnasiallehrer der höheren Klassen einen Schüler vor sich hat, der der wiederverkörperte Plato ist, mit dem er den Plato liest in der Klasse; da findet der Gymnasaallehrer, daß dieser «wiederverkörperte Plato» nicht das Allergeringste versteht vom Plato! Dieses Motiv hat sich der Dichter Friedrich Hebbel für ein Drama notiert, das dann nicht zur Ausführung gekommen ist. 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