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That is why we should not develop the child’s will through intellectual moral reasoning. We need to be clear that when we develop moral views in the child’s feeling between the ages of seven and fourteen, the child can, after maturing and moving into life, then comprehend intellectual and moral feelings and the will. What permeates the will, and what arises out of the will from the esthetic feeling developed earlier, enlivens morality and, insofar as it arises from freedom, gives people strength and inner certitude.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Art of Teaching from an Understanding of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-11-20","location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/218/1922-11-20/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Nancy Parsons Whittaker and Robert F. 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