{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-28/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would now like to say something about the difficulties that arise during puberty. These arise only when children have not been properly brought up. If children have the kind of introspection and inner experience that I described today, then that will have an effect upon the entire physical body and soul of the child. The child will have different perceptions and a different relationship to the external world than it would have had had it developed it too intellectually or with too little experience in art when the child was about seven or eight years old. The errors made in teaching children when they are seven or eight years old reappear in their problematic feelings during puberty. If we were to speak about the things that we often hear mothers and fathers tell about their children, we would be able to see how materialism has taken control of our feelings. People come to me and tell me about their five- or six-year-old child who has undesirable sexual behaviors. This shows only that people can no longer differentiate. If a knife has been made into a razor blade, then it is no longer a pocketknife. In the same way, activities that occur with children and which at a superficial level appear to expose some sexual desires are in fact not actual sexual activities, but simply demands that the child be brought up according to his or her own nature. When that is done, then abnormal feelings will not occur during puberty. 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Teaching Eurythmy, Music, Drawing, and Language","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-28","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-28/p033","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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Da darf ich kurz sein. Diese Klippen des Pubertätsalters treten nur dann auf, wenn eben nicht ordentlich erzogen wird. Wenn die Kinder in dieser Weise innerliches Erschauen und innerliches Erleben haben, wie ich es heute geschildert habe, dann wirkt das auf die ganze seelische und physische Organisation des Kindes so zurück, daß andere Empfindungen und ein anderes Verhältnis zur Außenwelt auftreten, als wenn ich gerade im 7., 8. Lebensjahre das Kind zu intellektuell oder zu wenig künstlerisch entwickle. Die Sünden des Erziehens im 7. und 8. Lebensjahre erscheinen in den unrichtigen Empfindungen des Pubertätsalters. Heute macht man allerdings die kuriosesten Erfahrungen, und wenn man darüber sprechen würde, was einem heute oftmals von Müttern oder Vätern von ihren Kindern erzählt wird, dann würde man eben sehen, wie der Materialismus in alle Gemüter eingegriffen hat. Es kommen heute Leute und sagen von ihrem 5- oder 6jährigen Kinde, es habe sexuelle Ungezogenheiten. Dies zeigt, daß man nicht mehr unterscheiden kann. Wenn ein Messer ein Rasiermesser geworden ist, ist es eben kein Taschenmesser. So sind Handlungen, die beim Kinde auftreten und die äußerlich sexuelle Triebe zu verraten scheinen, gar nicht sexuelle Handlungen, sondern fordern lediglich, daß man das Kind in naturgemäßer Weise erzieht; dann treten irgendwelche abnormale Empfindungen im Pubertätsalter ganz gewiß nicht auf. Wer das Leben kennt, weiß, daß es ebensowenig ein sexueller Akt ist, wenn das Kind sich in der Nähe der Sexualorgane kratzt, wenn es dort eine kleine entzündliche Stelle hat, die vielleicht äußerlich wenig bemerkbar ist, als wenn es sich an der Nase oder an der Wange kratzt. Damit ist mehr gesagt und auf mehr hingewiesen, als man gewöhnlich annimmt, und das muß man eben durchschauen. Und dann wird man nicht in solches Zeug verfallen wie Freud, der nun, statt die Dinge anzuschauen wie sie sind, nämlich, daß es einerlei ist, ob das Kind sich an der Wange kratzt oder woanders, wenn das Kind noch nicht das Pubertätszeitalter erlangt hat, aus dem heutigen Materialismus heraus behauptet, es sei ein sexueller Akt, wenn sich das Kind am Schnuller ergötze. Ja, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, von dieser Theorie aus kann man eben alles unter einen Gesichtspunkt bringen. Goethe wollte das mit einem seiner sehr humoristischen Gedichte treffen, indem er den Beweisen, die Welt bestehe aus so und so gearteten Atomen und den Weltanschauungen, wonach alles als Wille oder als unbewußtes Sein konstruiert wird, entgegenstellt: »Die Welt ist ein Sardellensalat«. (Goethe: Lyrische Gedichte.) Gustav Theodor Fechner, der Humorist hat wirklich auch eine gute Tat begangen. In seinem Büchelchen: «Der Mond aus Jodin» - es ist schon in den zwanziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts erschienen -, bewies er auch einmal nach dem Muster der Beweise, die man für vieles hat, daß der Mond lediglich aus Jod besteht. 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