{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 209/1921-12-04/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the sphere of education, if through our own short-comings as teachers we are incapable of helping the child to *think* properly, we may leave undeveloped much that by virtue of his previous incarnations he could have brought to expression. If, however, we are unable to work on the child's life of feeling and of will through our natural authority and our example as teachers, then we fail to impart to him what he ought to receive in the physical world, and thus we do injury to his subsequent life after death. In the modern world this is a cause of deep pain to anyone who understands these things. In the world of education to-day people insist upon the importance of the child being made to use his brain, upon the cultivation of his intellect. True, much that the child brings with him through birth is brought out by these means. But it can only be of real use when earthly life, too is presented to the child in the right way, that is to say, when we are able through example and authority to impart to him the intangible qualities belonging to feeling and to will. We injure the child's eternal life if we fail to cultivate in him the right kind of feeling and. will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. The Mission of the Scandinavian Peoples","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-12-04","location":null,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/209/1921-12-04/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"APC1948","book_title":"Cosmic Forces in Man","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA209/English/APC1948/19211204p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Die Menschen versuchen heute in Lehre und Erziehung immer wieder und wieder auf die Anschauung hinzuweisen, dadurch das Kind zum Denken zu bringen, Intellektualistisches in dem Kinde auszubilden. Dadurch wird allerdings vieles von dem, was das Kind sich durch die Geburt ins Dasein bringt, herausgeholt. Aber das kann doch nur von Nutzen sein, wenn dem Kinde .auch entgegengebracht wird für das irdische Leben in der richtigen Weise dieses irdische Leben selber, wenn wir ihm also das, was in Gefühl und Wille unanschaulich liegt, auch unanschaulich durch unsere Autorität, durch unser Vorbild beizubringen vermögen. Und vor allen Dingen schädigen wir das ewige Leben des Kindes, wenn wir nicht Gefühl und Wille ausbilden. Denn das Denken, das wir uns mitbringen durch die Geburt, das findet seinen Abschluß hier in dieser sinnlichen Welt. Das stirbt mit uns. Allein dasjenige, das wir durch Gefühl und Wille ausbilden, was allerdings dann unbewußt sich wiederum mit neuen Gedanken durchsetzt, nehmen wir durch die Pforte des Todes mit. Es wird schon eintreten müssen in unserer gegenwärtigen schweren Zeit für die Menschheit, daß Religion, Erziehung, allgemeines Geisteswesen, das ganze Leben überhaupt wiederum Rücksicht nehmen auf die ewige Natur des Menschen, und dabei nicht bloß auf den menschlichen Egoismus sehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/209/1921-12-04/p005"}],"english":["GA 209/1921-12-04/p006","GA 209/1921-12-04/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":315,"en_words":298,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6637,"original_word_count":7249,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"APC1948","book_title":"Cosmic Forces in Man","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA209/English/APC1948/19211204p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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