{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 309/1924-04-14/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But children are not surrounded only by beneficial forces that inspire religious devotion in later life. There are also spiritual forces that are harmful, which come from people around children and from other spiritual forces in the world. In this way, this natural religious element in a child’s physical body may also be exposed to evil in the environment—children can encounter evil forces. And when I say that even a small child’s physical body has a religious quality, I do not mean that children cannot be little demons! 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Sie sind es deshalb, weil sie an das böse Geistige hingegeben sind, das wir heraustreiben müssen, das wir besiegen müssen dadurch, daß wir die geeigneten Methoden anwenden müssen, solange sie angewendet werden können. Solange das Kind ein nachahmend religiöses Wesen ist, hilft es durchaus nicht, wenn ich das Kind ermahne. Zum Achtgeben auf Worte gehört schon, daß die Seele in gewisser Weise emanzipiert ist. Da muß schon das Seelische auf sie aufpassen. Beim Kinde helfen Worte nicht. Es hilft aber alles das, was wir dem Kinde so vormachen, daß das Kind es sieht, daß es in ihm als eine Wahrnehmung fortfließt. Nur muß auch das Moralische in dem drinnen liegen, was wir dem Kinde vormachen. Man wird es schon bemerken: geradeso wie, sagen wir, der Farbenblinde sich irgendwo eine Farbenfläche anschaut und alles so grau in grau sieht, nicht die Farben sieht, so schaut der Erwachsene die Gesten der Menschen, ihre Blicke, ihre Mienen, die Schnelligkeit oder Langsamkeit ihrer Bewegungen, das Eckige ihrer Bewegungen. Er schaut das Physische, aber er nimmt nicht mehr das Moralische darin wahr. Das Kind schaut das Moralische, wenn auch auf unterbewußte Art. Deshalb müssen wir uns klar sein darüber, daß wir in der Umgebung des Kindes nicht bloß aus dem Sichtbaren heraushalten müssen alles dasjenige, was das Kind nicht nachahmen soll, sondern daß wir aus dem Unsichtbaren heraushalten müssen auch alle Gedanken in der Nähe des Kindes, welche nicht in die kindliche Seele hineinkommen sollen. Und diese Gedankenerziehung, die ist sogar für das kindliche Alter bis zum Zahnwechsel hin das Allerwichtigste: wenn wir uns auch nicht gestatten, unreine, häßliche, zornwütige Gedanken zu haben in der Nähe des Kindes. Denn Sie werden zwar sagen: Ich kann ja hier denken, was ich will, da ändere ich mich äußerlich nicht; da sieht das Kind nichts, es kann also auch nicht beeinflußt werden. - Sehen Sie, in dieser Beziehung, muß ich sagen, liegt eigentlich dasjenige, was man in interessanter Weise wahrnehmen konnte bei den wirklich recht laienhaft dilettantisch angestellten Versuchen mit den denkenden Pferden, den rechnenden Pferden oder mit anderen Intelligenz äußernden Tieren. 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