{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 296/1919-08-09/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the past when man's life was more instinctive he could also rely instinctively on this imitation. This will not be the case in future. 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,"title":"I. Historical Requirements of the Present Time","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-08-09","location":null,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/296/1919-08-09/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. 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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"}],"english":["GA 296/1919-08-09/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":203,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7350,"original_word_count":7947,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. 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