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Adults will have to live in a social organism which, in regard to the economic aspect, will be social; in regard to government, democratic; and from the spiritual aspect, liberal, free. The great problem of the future will be that of education. How will we have to deal with children so that they, as adults, can grow into the social, democratic, and spiritually free areas of living in the most comprehensive way? Spiritual science has pointed to this problem of education as present-day humanity will have to understand it if it wishes to advance. Social demands will remain chaotic if it is not seen that at their base lies the most urgent problem of the present time: the problem of education. If you wish to acquaint yourselves with the broad guide-lines concerning this problem of education you only need to study my little book, *Education of The Child From The Point Of View Of Spiritual Science*. Here one of the most important questions of the present time has been brought to the surface, namely, the social question of education. The widest circles of modern humanity will have to learn what spiritual science has to offer in regard to the three epochs of man's youth and their development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/296/1919-08-09/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-08-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":254,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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There we are imitators to a much higher degree because we are united with the beings we imitate. Then we are placed into the physical world. In it we continue our habit of being one with our surroundings. This habit then extends to being one with, imitating, the people around us who have to take care of a child's education by doing, thinking, and feeling only what he may imitate. Benefit for a child is all the greater the more he is able to live not in his own soul but in those within his environment.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/296/1919-08-09/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-08-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":274,"en_words":237,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. 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Then care will have to be taken that a child be an imitator. In education the question will have to be answered: How can we best shape the life of a child so that he may imitate his surroundings in the best possible way? What has happened in the past in regard to this imitation will have to become increasingly intensive and conscious in the future. For men will have to make clear to themselves that when children are grown to adulthood in the social organism they will have to be free human beings, and *one can become free only if as a child one has been a most intensive imitator*. This natural power of a child must be strongly developed precisely for the time when socialism will break in upon us. People will not become free beings, in spite of all declaiming and political wailing about freedom, if the power of imitation is not implanted in them in the age of childhood. Only if this is done will they as adults have the basis for social freedom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/296/1919-08-09/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-08-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":203,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. 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Die erwachsenen Menschen werden in einem sozialen Organismus leben müssen, der wirtschaftlich sozial, staatlich demokratisch, geistig liberal aufgerichtet wird sein müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":68,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Die große Frage für die Zukunft wird sein: Wie werden wir uns zu benehmen haben gegenüber den Kindern, wenn wir sie so erziehen wollen, daß sie als Erwachsene in das Soziale, das Demokratische, in das Liberale in umfassendstem Sinne hineinwachsen können? Und eine der allerwichtigsten der sozialen Fragen für die Zukunft, ja schon für die Gegenwart, ist einmal die Erziehungsfrage. Und auf diese Erziehungsfrage wurde gerade innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaft hingedeutet in der Weise, wie es die Menschheit der Gegenwart wird verstehen müssen, wenn sie vorwärtsdringen will. Sonst werden die sozialen Forderungen immer chaotisch bleiben, wenn nicht gesehen wird auf ihrem Grunde die gewaltigste Frage der Gegenwart: die Erziehungsfrage. Und Sie brauchen, wenn Sie die großen Richtlinien kennenlernen wollen für dasjenige, was in der Erziehungsfrage vorliegt, nur zur Hand zu nehmen das kleine Büchelchen: «Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft.» Eine der wichtigsten sozialen Fragen der Gegenwart ist mit diesem Büchelchen auf die Oberfläche der Menschenbetrachtung gehoben worden: die soziale Erziehungsfrage. Lernen wird man müssen in weitesten Kreisen der modernen Menschheit dasjenige, was mit Bezug auf die drei Epochen der Jugendentwickelung des Menschen aus der Geisteswissenschaft herausgeholt werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p021"},{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Sie wissen, es ist da hingewiesen darauf, wie zwischen der Geburt und dem 7. Jahre, dem Jahre, das den Zahnwechsel durchschnittlich bringt, das Menschenwesen ein nachahmendes Wesen ist, wie das Menschenwesen dasjenige tut, was seine Umgebung tut. Betrachten Sie schließlich das Kind wirklich verständig, Sie werden überall finden: Das Kind ist ein nachahmendes Wesen, es tut dasjenige, was die Großen tun. Die große Wichtigkeit in dem Kindesleben ist die, daß die Menschen, die in der Umgebung des Kindes sind, nur dasjenige tun, was das Kind nachahmen kann, ja, daß sie nur dasjenige denken und empfinden in der Umgebung des Kindes, was das Kind nachahmen kann. Das Kind setzt, indem es durch die Geburt ins physische Dasein eintritt, nur das fort, was es erlebt hat in der geistigen Welt vor der Empfängnis. Da lebt man ja als Menschenwesen in den Wesen der höheren Hierarchien drinnen; da tut man alles dasjenige, was an Impulsen aus dem Wesen der höheren Hierarchien kommt. Da ist man in einem noch viel höheren Grade ein Nachahmer, weil man in einer Einheit ist mit denjenigen Wesen, die man nachahmt. Dann wird man in die physische Welt herausgesetzt. Da setzt man die Gewohnheit, eins zu sein mit der Umgebung, fort. Diese Gewohnheit erstreckt sich dann darauf, eins zu sein mit Wesen, oder nachzuahmen diejenigen Wesen, die als Menschen in der Umgebung sind und für die Erziehung zu sorgen haben, indem sie dasjenige nur tun und denken und empfinden, was das Kind nachahmen kann. Es ist um so größeres Heil für das Kind, je mehr es leben kann nicht in seiner Seele, sondern in der Seele der Umgebung, in den Seelen der Umgebung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p022"},{"locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"In der Vergangenheit konnten die Menschen, weil ihr Leben mehr ein instinktives war, auf diese Nachahmung auch instinktiv sich verlassen. In der Zukunft wird das nicht so sein. In der Zukunft wird achtgegeben werden müssen darauf, daß das Kind ein Nachahmer ist. In der Zukunft wird bei der Erziehung die Frage immerzu beantwortet werden müssen: Wie gestaltet man am besten das Leben des Kindes so, daß es in der besten Weise seine Umgebung nachahmt? Alles das, was in der Vergangenheit geschehen ist in bezug auf dieses Nachahmen, es wird intensiver und immer intensiver, bewußter und immer bewußter gefragt werden müssen gegen die Zukunft hin. Denn die Menschen werden sich eines sagen müssen: Wenn die Menschen im sozialen Organismus werden erwachsen sein sollen, so werden sie freie Menschen sein müssen. — Frei wird man nur, wenn man zuerst als Kind möglichst intensiver Nachahmer war. Die Kraft, die die naturgemäße Kraft des Kindes ist, sie muß intensiv ausgebildet werden gerade für das Zeitalter, in dem der Sozialismus hereinbrechen wird. Und die Menschen werden nicht freie Wesen werden, trotz aller Deklamationen und trotz alles politischen Gewimmers über Freiheit, wenn die entsprechende Kraft der Nachahmung im Kindesalter nicht eingepflanzt wird. Denn was im Kindesalter in dieser Weise eingepflanzt wird, das allein kann die Grundlage für die soziale Freiheit geben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/296/1919-08-09/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[20],"to":[20,21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[23],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}