{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 294/1919-08-21/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this way we shall win a certain deep-lying sense of method which we must develop in ourselves as educators and teachers, and which we cannot transfer directly to anyone else. Imagine that we have an individual before us to teach and educate—a child. In these days the vision of the growing being is completely disappearing from education; everything is in confusion. But we must accustom ourselves to distinguish between differences in our vision of this child. We must accompany, as it were, our teaching and educating with inner sensations, with inner feelings, even with inner stirrings of the will, which are only heard, as it were, in a lower octave, and which are not brought out. We must be conscious ourselves that in the growing child there evolve gradually the ego and the astral body; the etheric body and the physical body are already there, inherited.[^1] Now it is well for us to picture: The physical body and the etheric body are always particularly cultivated from the head downwards. The head radiates what really creates the physical man. If we follow the right course of education and instruction for the head, we best serve the growth-system. If we teach the child in such a way that we draw out the head-element from the whole being, the right experiences pass from his head into his limbs: the individual grows better, he learns how to walk better, etc. So we can say: the physical and etheric bodies stream downwards when we cultivate all that has relation to the higher man in a positive way. If, in teaching the child to read and write more intellectually, we have the feeling that the child, absorbing what we impart to him, comes to meet us, then this is passing from his head into the rest of his body. But the ego and the astral body are being developed from below upwards when the whole being is educated. A powerful ego sense would be awakened, for instance, if we taught the child elementary eurhythmy in the third and fourth years. The whole individual would be engaged, and a correct ego-sense would strike root in his being. And if he hears plenty of stories to rejoice over and even feel sad about, the astral body will develop from the lower individual upward. Just think back for a moment a little more intimately to your own experiences. I expect you will all have had this experience: In walking through the street and being startled by something, not only your head and your heart were startled, but in your limbs, too, you were startled and you re-lived the shock later. You will be able to agree from this experience that the surrender to something which disarticulates the feelings and the emotions, affects the whole being, not only the heart and the head.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Introduction—Aphoristic remarks on Artistic Activity, Arithmetic, Reading, and Writing","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-08-21","location":null,"word_count":474,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/294/1919-08-21/p024","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Harry Collison","identified_edition":"RSPC1937","book_title":"Practical Course for Teachers","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA294/English/RSPC1937/19190821n01.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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Wir müssen uns bewußt werden: In dem werdenden Kinde entwickeln sich nach und nach das Ich und der astralische Leib; durch die Vererbung steht schon da der ätherische Leib und der physische Leib. Jetzt ist es gut, daß wir uns denken: Der physische Leib und der ätherische Leib sind etwas, was immer besonders gepflegt wird von dem Kopfe nach unten. Der Kopf strahlt aus, was den physischen Menschen eigentlich schafft. Machen wir die richtigen Erziehungsund Unterrichtsprozeduren mit dem Kopfe, dann dienen wir der Wachstumsorganisation am besten. Unterrichten wir das Kind so, daß wir aus dem ganzen Menschen das Kopfelement herausholen, dann geht das Richtige vom Kopfe in seine Glieder über: Der Mensch wächst besser, er lernt besser gehen und so weiter. Und so können wir sagen: Es strömt nach unten in das Physische und das Ätherische, wenn wir in sachgemäßer Weise alles, was sich auf den oberen Menschen bezieht, ausbilden. Haben wir das Gefühl, indem wir in mehr intellektueller Weise Lesen und Schreiben ausbilden, daß das Kind uns entgegenkommt, indem es das aufnimmt, was wir ihm beibringen, so werden wir das vom Kopfe aus in den übrigen Leib hineinschicken. Ich und astralischer Leib wird aber von unten herauf ausgebildet, wenn der ganze Mensch in die Erziehung hineingestellt wird. Ein kräftiges Ichgefühl würde zum Beispiel dann entstehen, wenn man zwischen dem 3. und 4. Lebensjahre elementare Eurythmie an das Kind heranbringen würde. Dann würde der Mensch davon in Anspruch genommen, und es würde ein rechtes Ichgefühl hineinstoßen in sein Wesen. Und wenn er viel erzählt bekommt, woran er sich freut oder auch woran er Schmerzen hat, dann bildet das von dem unteren Menschen aus den astralischen Leib aus. Bitte, reflektieren Sie da einmal auf Ihre eigenen Erlebnisse etwas intimer. Ich glaube, Sie werden alle eine Erfahrung gemacht haben: Wenn Sie auf der Straße gegangen sind und durch irgend etwas erschrocken sind, dann sind Sie nicht nur mit dem Kopfe und mit dem Herzen erschrocken, sondern dann sind Sie auch mit den Gliedern erschrocken und haben in ihnen den Schreck nachgefühlt. Daraus werden Sie den Schluß ziehen können, daß die Hingabe an etwas, was Gefühle und Affekte auslöst, den ganzen Menschen ergreift, nicht bloß Herz und Kopf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":471,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/294/1919-08-21/p020"}],"english":["GA 294/1919-08-21/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":471,"en_words":474,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5570,"original_word_count":5396,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Harry Collison","identified_edition":"RSPC1937","book_title":"Practical Course for Teachers","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA294/English/RSPC1937/19190821n01.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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