{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 293/1919-08-25/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The earlier, more naive patriarchal forms of education achieved this in a naive patriarchal way: it simply became a habit of life. In all the things which were used in this way there is something of educational value. Why, for instance, should we use the Lord's Prayer every day? If a man nowadays were expected to read the same story daily, he simply would not do it; he would find it far too dull. The man of to-day is trained to do things once. But men of an earlier time not only said the same Lord's Prayer every day, they also had a book of stories which they read at least every week. And for this reason their wills were stronger than those produced by the present methods of education: for the cultivation of the will depends upon repetition and conscious repetition. This must be taken into consideration. And so it is not enough to say in the abstract that the will must be educated. For then people will believe that if they have good ideas themselves for the development of the will and apply them to the child by some clever methods, they will contribute something to the cultivation of the will. But in reality this is of no use whatever. Those who are exhorted to be good become only weak nervous men. Those become inwardly strong to whom it is said in childhood: *“You* do *this* to-day and *you* do *that*, and both of you do the same tomorrow and the day after.” And they do it merely on authority because they see that one in the school must command. Thus to assign to the child some kind of work for each day that he can do every day, sometimes even the whole year through, has a great effect upon the development of the will. In the first place it creates a contact amongst the pupils; then it also strengthens the authority of the teacher, and doing the same thing repeatedly works powerfully on the children's will.","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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Dadurch waren sie auch dem Willen nach stärkere Menschen als diejenigen, welche aus der heutigen Erziehung hervorgehen; denn auf Wiederholung und bewußter Wiederholung beruht die Willenskultur. Das muß berücksichtigt werden. Daher genügt es nicht, in abstracto zu sagen: man muß auch den Willen erziehen. Denn man wird dann glauben, wenn man selber gute Ideen für die Willensausbildung hat und diese durch irgendwelche raffinierte Methoden dem Kinde beibringt, zur Ausbildung des Willens etwas beizutragen. Das nützt aber gar nichts in Wirklichkeit. Es werden doch nur schwache, nervöse Menschen diejenigen, welche man zur Moral ermahnen will. Innerlich stark werden die Menschen werden, wenn man zum Beispiel zu den Kindern sagt: Du tust heute dies, und du tust heute das, und ihr beide werdet morgen und übermorgen dasselbe tun. - Da tun sie es auf Autorität hin, weil sie einsehen, daß einer in der Schule befehlen muß. Also: einem jeden eine Art Handlung für jeden Tag zuweisen, die sie dann jeden Tag, unter Umständen das ganze Schuljahr hindurch, vollbringen - das ist etwas, was auf die Willensbildung sehr stark wirkt. Das schafft erstens einen Kontakt unter den Schülern; dann stärkt es die Autorität des Unterrichtenden und bringt die Menschen in eine wiederholentliche Tätigkeit hinein, die stark auf den Willen wirkt. Warum wirkt denn ganz besonders das künstlerische Element auf die Willensbildung? Weil das ja im Üben erstens auf Wiederholung beruht, zweitens aber auch, weil dasjenige, was sich der Mensch künstlerisch aneignet, ihm immer wieder Freude macht. Das Künstlerische genießt man immer wieder, nicht nur das erste Mal. Es hat schon in sich die Anlage, den Menschen nicht nur einmal anzuregen, sondern ihn unmittelbar immer wieder zu erfreuen. Und daher haben wir das, was wir im Unterricht wollen, in der Tat zusammenhängend mit dem künstlerischen Element. 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