{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 293/1919-08-25/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If you think of what was said yesterday you will remember that everything intellectual is will grown old, will in its old age. Thus all ordinary exhortation, anything in the form of a concept has no effect upon a child at the usual school age. Let us once more summarise what has been said, so that we may be clear on this point: feeling is will in the becoming, will that has *not yet become*; but the whole human being lives in the will, so that in a child too the subconscious resolutions must be reckoned with. But let us at all costs guard against believing that we can influence a child's will by all the things we have thought out so well—in our own opinion. We must ask ourselves how we can have a good influence on the feeling nature of the child. This we can only achieve by introducing actions which have to be constantly repeated. You direct the impulse of the will aright, not by telling a child once what the right thing is, but by getting him to *do* something to-day and tomorrow and again the day after. It is not the right thing to begin by exhorting the child and giving him rules of conduct: you must lead him to do something which you think will awaken his feeling for what is right, and get him to do it repeatedly. An action of this sort must be made into a habit. The more it becomes an unconscious habit, the better it is for the development of the feeling; the more conscious a child is of doing the action repeatedly, out of devotion, because it ought to be done, because it must be done, the more you are raising the deed to a real impulse of will. A more unconscious repetition cultivates feeling: fully conscious repetition cultivates the true will impulse, for it enhances the power of resolution, of determination. The power of determination, which is dormant in the sub-conscious, is spurred and aroused when you lead the child to repeat things consciously. In cultivating the will, therefore, we must not expect to do what is of importance in cultivating the intellect. Where the intellect is concerned we always consider that when an idea is given to a child, the better he “grasps” it, the better it is: the single presentation of the thing is of the greatest importance: after that it has to be retained, remembered. But a thing taught once and afterwards retained has no effect on feeling or will: rather the feeling and will are affected by what is done over and over again, and by what is seen to be the right thing to do because circumstances demand it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Will, Feeling, and the Inner Nature of Man","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Hüten wir uns nur vor dem Glauben, daß wir mit allem, was wir meinen gut ausgedacht zu haben, auf den Willen des Kindes einen Einfluß haben. Wir müssen uns daher fragen: Wie können wir einen guten Einfluß auf die Gefühlsnatur des Kindes nehmen? Das können wir nur durch das, was wir einrichten als das wiederholentliche Tun. Nicht dadurch, daß Sie dem Kinde einmal sagen, was richtig ist, können Sie den Willensimpuls zur richtigen Auswirkung bringen, sondern indem Sie heute und morgen und übermorgen etwas von dem Kinde tun lassen. Das Richtige liegt gar nicht zunächst darin, daß Sie darauf ausgehen, dem Kinde Ermahnungen, Sittenregeln zu geben, sondern Sie lenken es hin auf irgend etwas, von dem Sie glauben, daß es das Gefühl für das Richtige im Kinde erwecken wird und lassen dies das Kind wiederholentlich tun. Sie müssen eine solche Handlung zur Gewohnheit erheben. Je mehr es bei der unbewußten Gewohnheit bleibt, um so besser ist es für die Entwickelung des Gefühls; je mehr das Kind sich bewußt wird, die Tat aus Hingabe in der Wiederholung zu tun, weil sie getan werden soll, weil sie getan werden muß, desto mehr erheben Sie dies zum wirklichen Willensimpuls. Also mehr unbewußtes Wiederholen kultiviert das Gefühl; vollbewußtes Wiederholen kultiviert den eigentlichen Willensimpuls, denn dadurch wird die Entschlußkraft erhöht. Und die Entschlußkraft, die sonst nur im Unterbewußten bleibt, wird angespornt dadurch, daß Sie das Kind bewußt Dinge wiederholen lassen. Wir dürfen also nicht mit Bezug auf die Willenskultur auf das sehen, was beim intellektuellen Leben von besonderer Wichtigkeit ist. Im intellektuellen Leben rechnen wir immer darauf: man bringt einem Kinde etwas bei, und es ist um so besser, je besser es die Sache begriffen hat. Auf das einmalige Beibringen legt man den großen Wert; dann soll die Sache nur behalten, gemerkt werden. Aber was so einmal beigebracht und dann behalten werden kann, das wirkt nicht auf Gefühl und Wille, sondern auf Gefühl und Wille wirkt das, was immer wieder getan wird und was als das durch die Verhältnisse Gebotene für richtig getan angesehen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":438,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/293/1919-08-25/p027"}],"english":["GA 293/1919-08-25/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":438,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5417,"original_word_count":5355,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Daphne Harwood and Helen Fox","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"The Study of Man","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA293/English/RSP1966/19190825a01.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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