{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-06/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The second thing that man teaches himself - really out of that individuality that goes from incarnation to incarnation, from embodiment to embodiment - is the language through which he learns the truth from his fellow human beings and can express it himself. Those pedagogues who look deeper into the human gears know very well that a person who would be transferred to a desert island and would not be together with other people would not learn the language. What we inherit, what is implanted for later years so that it is subject to the principles of heredity, does not depend on people being together with their fellow human beings. For example, we are predisposed by heredity to change our teeth in our seventh year. We can be out on a desert island; if we only have the opportunity to grow up, we will change our teeth. But we only learn to speak when our soul being as such is stimulated; when that which we carry from life to life is stimulated. We have to form the germ for our laryngeal development at a time when we do not yet have our ego-consciousness. Before the time up to which we remember back, we must lay the seed for the formation of our laryngeal development so that our larynx can become a speech organism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"42. 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Diejenigen Pädagogen, die tiefer hineinsehen in das menschliche Getriebe, wissen sehr gut, dass ein Mensch, der hinausversetzt würde auf eine einsame Insel und nicht mit anderen Menschen zusammen wäre, die Sprache nicht lernen würde. Was wir ererbt erhalten, was eingepflanzt ist für spätere Jahre, sodass es den Vererbungsprinzipien unterliegt, das hängt nicht davon ab, dass der Mensch mit seinen Mitmenschen zusammen ist. Wir sind zum Beispiel von vorneherein durch die Vererbungsverhältnisse dazu veranlagt, im siebenten Jahre die Zähne zu wechseln. Da können wir draußen auf einer einsamen Insel sein; wenn wir nur die Möglichkeit haben aufzuwachsen, werden wir die Zähne schon wechseln. Sprechen aber lernen wir nur, wenn unser Seelenwesen als solches angeregt wird; wenn das angeregt wird, was wir von Leben zu Leben tragen. Wir müssen in jener Zeit den Keim für unsere Kehlkopfentwicklung formen, wo wir noch nicht unser Ich-Bewusstsein haben. 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