{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-05-06/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this is connected with a question that was presented to me yesterday and which I can more thoroughly discuss in this connection. The question was, “Why is it not possible to teach proper handwriting to those children who have such a difficult time writing properly?” Those who might study Goethe’s handwriting or that of other famous people will get the odd impression that famous people often have very strange handwriting. In education, we certainly cannot allow a child to have sloppy handwriting on the grounds that the child will probably someday be a famous person and we should not disturb him. We must not allow that to influence us. But what is actually present when a child writes in such a sloppy manner? If you make some comparisons, you will notice that sloppy handwriting generally arises from the fact that such children have a rather unmusical ear, or if not that, then a reason that is closely related to it. Children write in a sloppy way because they have not learned to hear precisely: they have not learned to hear a word in its full form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Rhythm in Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-05-06","location":null,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-05-06/p027","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/AP2001/19200506d01.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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Nun natürlich können wir uns in der Pädagogik nicht darauf einlassen, etwa zu sagen: Wir lassen den unorthographisch schreiben, denn wahrscheinlich ist er dann eine Größe, und da dürfen wir ihn nicht stören; wir müssen selbstverständlich die Sache so lenken, daß wir auf das nicht Rücksicht nehmen. Und daher ist für uns nur die Frage zu beantworten: Was liegt denn eigentlich vor, wenn so recht unorthographisch geschrieben wird? Sie brauchen nur vergleichend zu prüfen, und Sie werden sehen, daß das unorthographische Schreiben in der Regel darauf beruht — oder wenn es auf etwas anderem beruht, so ist dieses andere damit sehr verwandt -, daß solche Kinder, die unorthographisch zu schreiben verurteilt sind, wenig Ohr in bezug auf richtiges musikalisches Hören, also Hören von richtig Gesprochenem haben. Derjenige schreibt unorthographisch, der nicht präzise hören gelernt hat, der nicht gelernt hat, genau ein Wort in seinem plastischen Umfange zu hören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-05-06/p020"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-05-06/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":220,"en_words":187,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 301/1920-05-06/p020"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5380,"original_word_count":5691,"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/AP2001/19200506d01.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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