{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 302/1921-06-12/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is important for us to understand this process because we must pay special attention to it in education. If in line with the convictions of most teachers today, we merely present to the children things to be looked at, to be accurately perceived by the senses, we are not giving them anything that will help them to remember later in life. Their memory will be greatly enhanced, however, if we put feeling into our words, if we teach with warmth, if we spice our lessons with the possibility of allowing the children to experience corresponding emotions, if we make them smile or feel sad, if we endeavour to go beyond the merely intellectual aspects to the life of feeling. I cannot overemphasize the importance of such an approach. It is, of course, more difficult. It demands great presence of mind. Mere intellectual instruction is easier than a teaching that wishes to stimulate the children’s feeling, that makes for an inner connection with a subject. We need not be pedantic in this teaching, need not necessarily always connect feeling directly to the subject taught. We may refer to something else in order to stimulate feelings. The important thing is that the children’s feelings are engendered during a lesson. Such stirrings of feeling aid memory. And this fact we must not lose sight of. Even in the driest of subjects, such as physics or geometry, we should try to appeal to the children’s feelings. If, for example, we interrupt a thought process and ask a child, “If you were to do this and something unexpectedly were to happen …?”—we add feeling to the lesson. 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Dagegen sind viele Erinnerungshilfen vorhanden für das Kind, wenn wir versuchen, mit einem gewissen inneren Temperament, in einer temperamentvollen Weise den Unterricht zu begleiten mit Gefühlsmäßigem; wenn wir mit anderen Worten so in den Unterricht eingehen, daß wir ihn immerfort durchspicken mit der Möglichkeit, daß das Kind zu einem sanften, inneren, nicht ganz herauskommenden humorvollen Lächeln über das eine oder andere kommt, oder auch zu einer gewissen Herbigkeit oder Traurigkeit kommt; wenn wir also versuchen, niemals bei dem bloß Intellektuellen zu bleiben, sondern überzugehen zu Gefühlsbegleiterscheinungen des Unterrichtens. Das ist von einer außerordentlichen Wichtigkeit, obwohl für den Lehrer in einer gewissen Weise unbehaglich und unbequem, denn er muß hier natürlich an seine Geistesgegenwart größere Anforderungen stellen, wenn er die Kinder anregen will, gefühlsmäßig in Dinge, die man vorbringt, zu begleiten, als wenn er ihnen einfach erzählend oder auf Anschauung weisend einen Stoff beibringt. Es brauchen Gefühlserregungen durchaus nicht im pedantischen Sinne gerade an dasjenige anzuknüpfen, was man behandelt. Man kann den Gedankengang oder den Empfindungsgang erweitern, vielleicht sogar auf Nebensachen erweitern, aber versuchen, daß das Kind, während man es unterrichtet, eben auch immer Gefühlsregungen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302/1921-06-12/p009"},{"locus":"GA 302/1921-06-12/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Solche Gefühlsregungen sind wesentliche Erinnerungshilfen. Und das wollen wir wirklich nicht außer acht lassen. Wir sollten zum Beispiel auch beim Physikunterricht, beim Geometrieunterricht, beim trockensten Unterricht versuchen, das Gefühlsleben des Kindes in Regsamkeit zu bringen. 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