{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 302a/1920-09-16/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here we have an interplay between soul and body that is quite real—by which the soul, on reaching the age of seven, emancipates itself from the body, is active no longer in the body but for itself. In the seventh year forces begin to be active, arising in the body anew as soul-forces, to work on and on into the next incarnation. Then it is that what streams upward from the body is thrust back, and conversely the forces shooting downward from the head are held in check. Thus during the time the teeth are changing, the most active of battles is taking place between forces striving downward from above and others springing upward from below. The change of teeth is the physical expression for this struggle between the two sets of forces—those that later appear in the child as his powers of understanding and intellect, and those that need to be used especially in drawing, painting and writing. We put all of these up-welling forces to use when we develop writing out of drawing, for what these forces really strive for is to pass over into sculptural activity, drawing, etc. These are the forces that have their termination at the change of teeth, having previously shaped the body of the child, the sculptural forces which we use later, when the second dentition is completed, to introduce the child to drawing and painting, etc. In the main these are forces planted in the child from the spiritual world in which the child's soul lived before conception. They are active first as bodily forces shaping the head and then from the seventh year onward as soul forces. Thus in the period after the seventh year we simply draw forth from the child for our authoritarian purposes, what the child had previously made unconscious use of in imitation, inasmuch as these forces had taken their course unconsciously within the body. If later on the child turns out to be a sculptor, a draughtsman or an architect (but a proper architect, one who works with forms), the reason is that such a man has the predisposition to retain in his organism somewhat more of the down-raying forces, to retain rather more of them in the head, so that later on these childhood forces are still raying downward. However, if they are not sustained, if with the change of teeth everything translates into the soul sphere, then we have children who have no talent for drawing, for the sculptural or for architecture—who could never become a sculptor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Three Fundamental Forces in Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-09-16","location":null,"word_count":423,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/302a/1920-09-16/p005","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"T. van Vliet, Paula Wehrle and Karla Kiniger","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/MediMan/19200916p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-16/p005"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/302a/1920-09-16/p005","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Es ist der Zahnwechsel der physische Ausdruck dieses Kampfes jener beiden Kräftearten; jener Kräfte, die später beim Kinde zum Vorschein kommen als die Verstandes- und die intellektuellen Kräfte, und jener Kräfte, die besonders verwendet werden müssen im Zeichnen, Malen und Schreiben. Alle die Kräfte, die da heraufschießen, verwenden wir dann, wenn wir aus dem Zeichnen das Schreiben herausentwickeln; denn diese Kräfte wollen eigentlich übergehen in plastisches Gestalten, in Zeichnen und so weiter. Das sind die Kräfte, die im Zahnwechsel ihren Abschluß finden, die vorher den Körper des Kindes ausplastizierten, die Skulpturkräfte, und die wir verwenden später, wenn der Zahnwechsel vor sich gegangen ist, um das Kind zum Zeichnen, zum Malen und so weiter zu bringen. Es sind dies hauptsächlich diejenigen Kräfte, die in das Kind gelegt sind von der geistigen Welt aus, in denen die kindliche Seele gelebt hat vor der Empfängnis, in der geistigen Welt. Sie wirken zuerst kopfbildend als Körperkräfte und dann vom 7. Jahre ab als Seelenkräfte. So daß wir für die Zeit vom 7. Jahre ab für unsere autoritären Einflüsse einfach das beim Kinde herauskriegen, was das Kind vorher als Nachahmung unbewußt übte, indem diese Kräfte unbewußt in den Körper einschlugen. Wenn später aus dem Kinde ein Bildhauer, ein Zeichner oder ein Architekt wird, aber ein richtiger Architekt, der aus den Formen heraus arbeitet, so geschieht das aus dem Grunde, weil ein solcher Mensch die Anlage hat, in seinem Organismus etwas mehr zurückzubehalten von den Kräften, die in den Organismus hinunterstrahlen, etwas mehr zurückzubehalten im Kopfe, so daß auch später noch diese kindlichen Kräfte hinunterstrahlen. Wenn sie aber nicht aufgehalten werden, wenn mit dem Zahnwechsel alles ins Seelische übergeht, so bekommen wir Kinder, die dann keine Anlagen haben für Zeichnen, für Bildhauerisches oder für Architektur, die niemals Bildhauer werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":412,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/302a/1920-09-16/p006"}],"english":["GA 302a/1920-09-16/p005"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":412,"en_words":423,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 302a/1920-09-16/p006"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5562,"original_word_count":5304,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"T. van Vliet, Paula Wehrle and Karla Kiniger","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/MediMan/19200916p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 302a/1920-09-16/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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