{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-05-05/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In my opinion, modern education should also require the teacher to look objectively at everything in the artificiality of our age, and eliminate it through instruction during elementary school. There are many things—such as the methods I just mentioned—that are very difficult to overcome. The people who use such methods are fanatical and can see only how their methods may reform the world. In general, it is useless to try to discuss such things reasonably and objectively with these people. Such things can only be brought into their proper context by the next generation. Here is where we can make an impact. In regard to society it is always the next generation that accomplishes a great deal. The art of teaching and education consists not only of the methods used, but also of the perspective that results from the teacher’s interest in the general development of humanity. Teachers need to have a comprehensive interest in the development of humanity, and they need to have an interest in everything that occurs during the present time. The last thing a teacher should do is to limit his or her interests. The interests we develop for the cultural impulses of our age have an enlivening effect upon our entire attitude and bearing as teachers. You will excuse me when I say that much of what is properly felt to be pedantic in schools would certainly go away if the faculty were interested in the major events of life and if they would participate in public activities. Of course, people don’t like to see this, particularly in reactionary areas, but it is important for education not to simply have a superficial interest.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Synthesis and Analysis in Human Nature and Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-05-05","location":null,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-05-05/p031","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/AP2001/19200505d01.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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Solche Dinge können eigentlich nur von der nächsten Generation aus in das richtige Fahrwasser geleitet werden. Da können wir in der Tat eingreifen. Ungeheures kann in sozialer Beziehung immer getan werden von der nächsten Generation aus. Es ist schon so, daß zur Unterrichtskunst und Erziehungskunst nicht nur gehört das methodisch-didaktische Anwenden von Kraftmitteln, sondern vor allen Dingen der Gesichtspunkt, der sich dem Lehrenden oder dem Erziehenden aus dem Interesse ergibt, das er an der allgemeinen Entwickelung der Menschheit empfindet. Der Lehrer müßte vor allen Dingen ein umfassendes Interesse haben an der ganzen Entwickelung der Menschheit. Er müßte intensiv sich interessieren für alles dasjenige, was in seinem Zeitalter vorgeht. Er dürfte am allerwenigsten sich abschließen in irgendeinem engbegrenzten oder enggeschürzten Interesse. Das, was wir entwickeln an Interessen, ich möchte sagen, für die Kulturimpulse des ganzen Zeitalters, das wirkt wiederum belebend zurück auf das ganze Gebaren und Gehaben des Lehrers. Und Sie verzeihen mir, wenn ich es schon ausspreche, daß manches von dem, was als Pedanterie in der Schule oftmals mit Recht empfunden wird, sogleich weichen würde, wenn die Lehrerschaft sich in erster Linie für die großen Tatsachen des Lebens interessieren würde, teilnehmen würde an den öffentlichen Angelegenheiten. Allerdings insbesondere in reaktionären Ländern wird das ja nicht gern gesehen, aber es ist zu gleicher Zeit ein pädagogisches, nicht bloß ein äußerliches Interesse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-05-05/p018"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-05-05/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":322,"en_words":278,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5311,"original_word_count":5848,"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/AP2001/19200505d01.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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