{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-28/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The day before yesterday I showed how instruction in writing should be developed from instruction in drawing, or perhaps, from simple instruction in painting. That instruction will also serve for many other things I will mention. In the Waldorf School, I have generally made the attempt—and I believe there are certain indications that it was relatively successful after a short period of time—to begin with artistic activities even with the youngest children. Our youngest children in the Waldorf School are actually only occupied with school subjects for two hours a day. A relatively large period of time is spent with the younger children in teaching foreign languages. Although I am aware of the prejudices against this, there is a tremendously deep effect in regard to the children’s liveliness and attentiveness, that is, in regard to the awakening of their souls, when you attempt to teach foreign languages to young children without any grammatical pedantry, simply through speaking. Our children begin to learn French and English as soon as they enter school. In doing so, we use more time than is usual. The instruction in the afternoons consists almost only of music. We include in the normal school instruction what I have referred to as a drawing-basis for writing. Thus the younger children are primarily taught drawing in the way that I will describe later. Exception for a few hours in which the pastors and spiritual leaders provide religious instruction and where we need to work according to their schedule, afternoons are used almost exclusively for physical exercises and singing and music. When you begin in this way with the youngest children, you can see how you can include really the entire human being with this kind of artistic foundation of instruction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Teaching Eurythmy, Music, Drawing, and Language","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-28","location":null,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-28/p010","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/AP2001/19200428d01.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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Und es ist — ich weiß, wie viele Vorurteile dagegen sind — von einer ungeheuer tiefgehenden Wirkung in bezug auf das Lebendig- und AufmerksamWerden der Kinder, in bezug auf das Wachwerden der Seelen, wenn man versucht, ohne irgendwelche grammatische Pedanterie, bloß in einer Art sachlichen Konversierens, fremdsprachlichen Unterricht gerade an kleine Kinder heranzubringen. Französischen und englischen Unterricht bekommen unsere Kinder sofort, wenn sie in die Schule hereinkommen. Darauf wird eine größere Zeit verwendet als es sonst üblich ist. Das Weitere, und zwar der Nachmittagsunterricht, besteht fast nur darinnen, daß wir Musikalisches treiben. Dem eigentlichen Schulunterricht fügen wir aber schon das ein, was ich die zeichnerische Grundlage für das Schreiben nenne. Also die Kleinsten werden vor allen Dingen in der Weise zum Zeichnen angeleitet, wie ich es nachher charakterisieren werde. Den Nachmittag, mit Ausnahme von ein paar Religionsstunden, welche die Pastoren, die Geistlichen erteilen, wo man sich richten muß nach der Zeit, verwenden wir fast ausschließlich dazu, körperliche Übungen zu machen und Gesanglich-Musikalisches zu treiben. Da sieht man gerade, wenn man bei den Kleinsten gleich so anfängt, daß man wirklich den ganzen Menschen erfassen kann mit dieser Art der künstlerischen Grundlegung des ganzen Unterrichtes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-28/p011"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-28/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":295,"en_words":291,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7531,"original_word_count":7940,"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/AP2001/19200428d01.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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