{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I need hardly say that the teaching of languages is closely adapted to the different ages. In our days men's thinking, so far as realities are concerned, has become chaotic. They imagine themselves firmly rooted in reality because of their materialism, but in point of fact they are theorists. Those who flatter themselves on being practical men of the world are eminently theorists; they get it into their heads that something or other is right, without ever having tested it in practical life. And so, especially in education and teaching, they fall with an utterly impracticable radicalism into the opposite extreme when anything has been found wrong. It has been realized that when the old method of teaching languages, especially Latin and Greek, is based entirely on grammar and rules of syntax, the lessons tend to become mechanical and abstract. And so exactly the opposite principle has been introduced simply because people cannot think consistently. They see that something is wrong and fall into the other extreme, imagining that this will put it right. The consequence is that they now work on the principle of teaching no grammar at all. This again is irrational, for it means nothing else than that in some particular branch of knowledge the human being is left at the stage of mere consciousness and not allowed to advance to self-consciousness. Between the ninth and tenth years the child passes from the stage of consciousness to that of self-consciousness. He distinguishes himself from the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Und so ist namentlich in pädagogisch-didaktischen Fragen, wenn man auf der einen Seite gesehen hat, wie irgend etwas nicht richtig ist, dann ein unmöglicher Radikalismus nach dem anderen Extrem aufgetaucht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p039"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"So haben die Leute gesehen, daß die vorangegangene Zeit den Sprachunterricht ganz und gar, namentlich im Lateinischen und Griechischen, auf die Grammatik, auf die Sprachregeln aufgebaut hat, und daß dieses den Unterricht veräußerlichte, mechanisierte. Nun ist wiederum das entgegengesetzte Prinzip gekommen, nur weil man nicht konsequent auf die Sachen hinsehen kann. Und wenn man bemerkt, daß das Unheil da ist, dann fällt man ins andere Extrem, weil man glaubt, dadurch das Unheil vermeiden zu können. Und so ist das Prinzip entstanden, überhaupt gar nicht mehr irgend etwas Grammatikalisches zu lehren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p040"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Das ist wiederum unsinnig. Denn das hieße auf einem speziellen Gebiete wiederum nichts Geringeres als: man soll den Menschen nur beim Bewußtsein lassen, nicht zum Selbstbewußtsein kommen lassen. Der Mensch kommt eben zwischen dem neunten und zehnten Jahre vom Bewußtsein zum Selbstbewußtsein. 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