{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-09-18/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Indeed, all the segments of life take on special form when one has such an underlying view. You have often heard me speak here of the Waldorf School that was founded in Stuttgart. In teaching and education, this school is in a certain sense supposed to make practical use of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science. The abstract guidelines that you normally find in pedagogical textbooks, or in teaching regulations approved by the state, are by no means particularly important in the pedagogy of Waldorf School teachers. Instead, the feelings with which a teacher enters the classroom, for instance, are among the especially important things effective there. One of these feelings that is especially effective pedagogically—a feeling that every teacher is permeated with because he has been led into his calling from this aspect—is the reverence for the divine seed that, from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, is blossoming forth from within the entity that has come down from the eternal spiritual world into this physical world. The awareness, possessed by the teacher, that, through the gate of the physical body, he is dealing with a being that has descended to him out of spiritual worlds, is the basis of the deep reverence the teacher has for that human being, which, as a soul-spirit being, increasingly takes on form in the physical body. One may or may not believe it today—a teacher who has this reverence for the developing human being possesses a secret power within himself by means of which he teaches and educates quite differently from a teacher who does not have this reverence, and who believes that the human being comes into existence at the moment his physical body is released from the mother's body. For one teaches and educates not only by means of concepts and ideas. Above all, one educates with the mysterious powers and forces that pass as imponderables from teacher to child.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Prenatal Existence and the Spiritual Foundations of Human Development","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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Sie soll in gewisser Weise in Unterricht und Erziehung praktisch machen anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft. Etwas besonders Bedeutungsvolles in der Pädagogik der Waldorfschullehrer sind nicht etwa die abstrakten Grundsätze, die Sie sonst in pädagogischen Lehrbüchern oder in staatlich approbierten Lehrvorschriften finden können, sondern da wirken als ganz besonders wichtige Dinge zum Beispiel die Gefühle, mit denen der Lehrer die Klasse betritt. Eines derjenigen Gefühle, die da ganz besonders pädagogisch wirksam werden, von dem jeder Lehrer durchdrungen ist, weil er von dieser Seite aus in seinen Beruf eingeführt worden ist, das ist die Ehrfurcht vor jenem göttlichen Keim, der sich von Tag zu Tag, von Woche zu Woche, von Monat zu Monat herausdrängt aus dem Inneren des Wesens, das heruntergestiegen ist aus der ewig geistigen Welt in diese physische Welt. Das Bewußtsein, daß der Lehrer durch das Tor des Menschenleibes etwas zu tun hat mit einem Wesen, das heruntergestiegen ist zu ihm aus geistigen Welten, das macht jene tiefe Ehrfurcht aus, die der Lehrer dann hat vor jenem Menschenwesen, das sich als ein Geistig-Seelisches im physischen Leib immer mehr und mehr herausgestaltet. Man mag es heute schon glauben oder nicht: Ein Lehrer, der diese Ehrfurcht vor dem werdenden Menschen hat, hat eine geheime Kraft in sich, durch die er ganz anders unterrichtet und erzieht, als ein Lehrer, der diese Ehrfurcht nicht hat, der glaubt, der Mensch wäre entstanden, indem er sich als physischer Leib losgelöst hat von dem Leib der Mutter. Denn man unterrichtet und erzieht nicht allein mit Begriffen und Ideen, man erzieht vor allen Dingen mit jenen geheimnisvollen Kräften und Mächten, welche als Imponderabilien übergehen von dem Lehrer auf das Kind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-09-18/p009"}],"english":["GA 199/1920-09-18/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":287,"en_words":323,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6369,"original_word_count":5930,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA199/English/AP1986/19200918p01.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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