55. Eurythmy Performance

I certainly don't want to go as far as a very famous physiologist did - I've said it several times: After he had watched a eurythmy performance and I had also spoken to him about ordinary gymnastics, he made the following statement: in his opinion, gymnastics has no value at all for children, he considers it to be barbarism. You would certainly be astonished, ladies and gentlemen, if I were to mention the name of this very famous contemporary physiologist, but I will not do so. I won't go that far - I will certainly admit that physical gymnastics has a certain strong justification, and we have also introduced it in the classroom alongside eurythmy, the spiritual gymnastics. But as you can see, it is viewed much more prejudicially by the authorities than by myself. As I said, I don't go that far myself.