{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The further we go into areas where inorganic technology can no longer have a correcting effect, the less we can base our practice upon theory. We need think only of how slowly medicine has advanced in comparison with modern technology. You can very quickly see the significance of incorrect principles in the process of building a railway bridge or similar things. However, when a physician treats someone, it is not at all common to try to determine whether the physician has done everything necessary to restore the person’s health, simply because that is impossible to determine. Here the situation is very different; it is simply not possible to correct theories through practice. You will forgive me if I make a comment here, but I think it is important for teachers, since everything in life is important for teachers. In the areas of jurisprudence or economics, for instance, if we followed the way people’s principles were applied, we would very quickly see how lame the concept of control through practice is. What is officially determined in legal matters is then made correct through laws. This is true in all countries. Whether we can justify such things from the perspective of a genuine understanding of human beings is a question that is just as neglected today as it was when Goethe gave Faust the question of which rights we are born with.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Understanding the Human Being: A Foundation for Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-22","location":null,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-22/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200422d01.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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Wenn der Arzt den Menschen behandelt, so ist es heute noch nicht üblich, ihm nachzurechnen - es gibt auch gar nicht die Mittel, weil die Naturwissenschaft nicht geisteswissenschaftlich durchdrungen ist —, es ist noch nicht möglich, ihm nachzurechnen, ob er alles dasjenige getan hat, was zu der Gesundung des Menschen notwendig ist. Da wird die Sache schon ganz anders; da läßt sich nicht so ohne weiteres an der Praxis die theoretische Anschauung korrigieren. Nun - verzeihen Sie, daß ich auch diese Bemerkung mache, aber ich denke, sie ist gerade für den Pädagogen wichtig, weil für den Pädagogen das ganze Leben wichtig ist —, wenn man da nachgehen würde, sagen wir, auf dem Gebiete der Jurisprudenz oder des Wirtschaftslebens der Anwendung der Prinzipien, die die Menschen haben, dann würde man sehen, wie lendenlahm heute die Kontrolle durch die Praxis ist. Durch Gesetz soll verfügt werden, daß das richtig ist, was die offiziell eingesetzte Jurisprudenz macht. Das ist so in allen Ländern Sitte, Ob die Sache sich auch rechtfertigen läßt vor einer wirklichen Menschenerkenntnis, das ist heute ebensowenig die Frage wie zu Goethes Zeiten, als dieser seinem »Faust« die Frage von dem Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, anvertraute.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p008"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-22/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":230,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5026,"original_word_count":5630,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200422d01.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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