{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 279/1924-07-09/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now this exercise is most excellent in the teaching of eurhythmy from an educational point of view. Indeed, when one has observed in a child the tendency towards jealousy and ambition—qualities which one wishes to eliminate—one must persuade such a child to do this exercise with special warmth and ardour. In the art of education it is, of course, obvious that one must never apply anything having the least trace of what might be called magic; for anything of the nature of magic would work with a powerful suggestive element. It would react on the unconscious life of the child. Such means can only be used in the case of children of weak mentality, of deficient children; it is only permissible in such cases. When, however, abnormal characteristics are present in the soul life of the child it is absolutely necessary to work directly into the psychic life—though here, too, of course, one must avoid anything in the nature of actual suggestion or magic. Now what really happens when four children do this exercise? They hear the constant repetition: ‘ *I and you* ’. This brings to their consciousness the element of belonging together, of comradeship, the element of relationship to other human beings, and this is further impressed upon them in the: ‘ *are we*’. The gestures accompanying the exercise simply express the fact that the child is learning to pay attention to what is being done, to what is inwardly working upon him. Thus there is not the least trace of suggestion. It can really be said that this dance is a remedy against jealousy and false ambition. It can only be used in the case of healthy children when it is carried out with full consciousness, quite without anything in the nature of suggestion or magic.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XII. The Outpouring of the Human Soul into Form and Movement: The Curative Effect of this Upon the Moral and Psychic Nature and its Reaction upon the Whole Being of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-07-09","location":null,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/279/1924-07-09/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Vera Compton-Burnett and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"APC1956","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Speech","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/19240709p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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 zwar, wenn man bei Kindern beobachtet, daß sie neidisch sind oder ehrgeizig sind - Eigenschaften, die man ja bei Kindern verbessern will -, so läßt man sie mit einer besonderen Inbrunst diese Übung machen, und man wird das Folgende dadurch zur Ausführung bringen. Nicht wahr, man soll ganz selbst-verständlich in der Erziehungskunst auch nicht einmal in der leisesten Art irgend etwas anbringen, was magisch genannt werden könnte, denn alles Magische würde in der Erziehungskunst stark suggestiv wirken. Man würde auf das Unbewußte des Kindes zurückwirken. Das ist man aber nur in der Lage zu tun bei schwachsinnigen Kindern, bei minderwertigen Kindern; ist auch nur erlaubt bei minderwertigen Kindern. Solange aber Eigenschaften abnormer Natur seelische Eigenschaften bleiben, ist es durchaus notwendig, daß, abgesehen von allem Suggestiv-Magischen, auch rein seelisch gewirkt wird. Was geht denn hier vor, wenn ich vier Kinder diese Übung machen lasse? Sie hören sich an wiederholt: «Ich und du.» Dadurch kommt das Element des Zusammengehörens, der Geselligkeit, des Miteinander-Beziehunghabens der Menschen zum Bewußtsein, das dann in dem «sind wir» zum Bewußtsein gebracht wird. Und bei der Gebärde, die dabei gemacht wird, kommt lediglich das zum Ausdrucke, daß das Kind die Aufmerksamkeit auf das, was gemacht wird, was seelisch auf es wirkt, entwickelt. Es ist also nicht das geringste Suggestive dabei. So daß man also sagen kann: In diesem Tanz hat man ein Mittel gegen die Eigenschaften, neidisch zu sein, falschen Ehrgeiz zu haben. - Man kann nur die Anwendung davon machen bei gesunden Kindern, indem man sie diese Übung machen läßt, sie bei vollem Bewußtsein, ohne jede Suggestion, ohne jede Magie anwendet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/279/1924-07-09/p018"}],"english":["GA 279/1924-07-09/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":299,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3102,"original_word_count":2827,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Vera Compton-Burnett and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"APC1956","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Speech","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/19240709p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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