{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 226/1923-05-19/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is indeed true that the child's actions imitate what goes on in the child's surroundings. I have indicated in my public lecture how the child, completely at one with his sense-organism, inwardly experiences every gesture, every movement made by the people around him. But he experiences every gesture, every movement, in its moral significance. Hence a child who is confronted with a choleric father experiences the immoral element connected with a choleric temperament. And the child experiences, through the subtlest movements of the people around him, the thoughts that these people harbor. Hence we should never permit ourselves to have impure, immoral thoughts in a child's presence and say: Such thoughts are permissible, because the child knows nothing about them. This is not true. Whenever we think, our nerve-fibers are always vibrating in one way or another. And this vibration is perceived by the child, especially during his earliest years. The child is a subtle observer and imitator of his surroundings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution, Part 1","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-19","location":null,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/226/1923-05-19/p030","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Erna McArthur","identified_edition":"AP1966","book_title":"Man's Being, His Destiny and World-Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA226/English/AP1966/19230519p01.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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Und das Kind erlebt in den feinsten Bewegungen, die der Mensch in seiner Umgebung macht, die Gedanken, die der Mensch hat. Wir sollten uns daher nie gestatten, unreine, unmoralische Gedanken etwa in der Umgebung eines Kindes zu haben und zu sagen: In Gedanken können wir uns das gestatten, das Kind weiß doch nichts davon. - Das ist nicht wahr. Wenn wir denken, bewegen sich immer in irgendeiner Weise wenigstens unsere inneren Nervenstränge. Diese nimmt auch das Kind wahr, besonders in den allerersten Jahren. Das Kind ist ein feiner Beobachter und Nachahmer seiner Umgebung. Aber was das Merkwürdige, das, ich möchte sagen, im erhabenen Sinne Interessante ist, ist, daß das Kind nicht alles nachahmt, sondern daß es eine Wahl trifft. 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