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The Waldorf School was originally founded for the children of working-class people in connection with a certain business, although for a long time now it has been a school for all classes of the community, and for this reason a large majority of the children belonged to no religious confession. As often happens in schools in Central Europe, these children were being taught nothing in the way of religion, and so for their sake we have introduced a so-called “free religious instruction.” We make no attempt to introduce theoretical Anthroposophy into the School. Such a thing would be quite wrong. Anthroposophy has been given for grown-up people; one speaks of Anthroposophy to grown-up people, and its ideas and conceptions are therefore clothed in a form suitable for them. Simply to take what is destined for grown-up people in anthroposophical literature and introduce that would have been to distort the whole principle of Waldorf School education. 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Und so wird der katholische Religionsunterricht in der Waldorfschule von dem katholischen Priester, der evangelische Religionsunterricht von dem evangelischen Pfarrer erteilt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p048"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p049","passage_number":49,"text":"Aber es gibt eine ganze Menge von Schülern in der Waldorfschule, die, wie man in Mitteleuropa sagt, eben Dissidentenkinder sind, die einfach keinen Religionsunterricht nehmen würden, wenn eben nur katholischer und evangelischer Religionsunterricht da wäre. Dadurch, daß sich die Waldorfschule zunächst aus dem Proletarierstande herausgebildet hat — sie war die Schule eines Industrieunternehmens, sie ist das heute längst nicht mehr, sie ist eine Schule für alle Klassen geworden -, waren anfangs namentlich überwiegend konfessionslose Kinder da. Diese Kinder hätten nun, wie es ja in sehr vielen Schulen Mitteleuropas der Fall ist, gar keinen Religionsunterricht gehabt. So haben wir gerade für diese Kinder, die sonst gar keinen Reliigionsunterricht gehabt hätten, einen sogenannten freien Religionsunterricht eingeführt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p049"},{"locus":"GA 307/1923-08-15/p050","passage_number":50,"text":"Dieser freie Religionsunterricht, der ist auch nicht darauf abgestellt, theoretische Anthroposophie in die Waldorfschule hineinzutragen. Das würde ganz falsch sein. Die anthroposophische Überzeugung ist bis heute für Erwachsene ausgebildet, und man spricht ja über Anthroposophie zu Erwachsenen. Man kleidet daher alle Begriffe, alle Empfindungen in dasjenige, was für Erwachsene gut ist. Dasjenige, was in unserer anthroposophischen Literatur für Erwachsene bestimmt ist, einfach zu nehmen und es nun in die Schule hineinzutragen, hieße gerade dem Pädagogisch-Didaktischen im Waldorfschul-Prinzip schnurstracks zuwiderhandeln. Da handelt es sich darum, für diejenigen Kinder, die uns übergeben werden, freiwillig übergeben werden zum freien religiösen Unterricht, nun auch im strengsten Sinne des Wortes wiederum das religiöse Element, und was ihnen als Religionsunterricht zu geben ist, abzulesen von ihrem Lebensalter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/307/1923-08-15/p050"}],"english":["GA 307/1923-08-15/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":304,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5195,"original_word_count":5516,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Harry Collison","identified_edition":"RSPC1943","book_title":"Education","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA307/English/RSPC1943/19230815p01.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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