{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 334/1920-03-18/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"However, this does mean that this pedagogy, this art of education, is built on a real knowledge of human nature. A true knowledge of human nature can only be gained through the methods that I have briefly outlined today. Through these methods, one learns to recognize how, above all, certain epochs can be distinguished in the developing human being, based on the inner soul-spiritual. These epochs are often superficially overlooked today, even in science, which thinks it is very exact. Of course, certain processes can be seen in the child when the teeth change around the age of seven. But those who look deeper into human nature also see how, during this time of changing teeth, a complete metamorphosis of the entire soul life takes place in the child. While in the first period, from birth to seven years, everything the child does, everything the child feels inclined and capable of doing, stems from the principle of imitation, from a feeling one's way into everything that those around the child do, the change of teeth marks the beginning of the epoch when, around the age of seven, the child's inner abilities are oriented towards authority. Up to the age of seven, the child will, as a matter of course, imitate the elementary life around him, even in the movements of his hands and the way he forms his speech, doing what the adults around him do. He will completely interweave himself into what emanates even from the imponderables of the directions of thoughts and ideas in his environment. From the seventh year onwards, the child needs to believe in those around him: they know, in a certain sense, what is right; they need authority. No matter how much one may rail against authority today, one should bear in mind that from the seventh year onwards, until around the year when sexual maturity occurs, authority is something that a person must be influenced by if they are to develop healthily. For a second epoch in human childhood is that from the change of teeth to sexual maturity, to about the age of fourteen. About, I say; it is not some kind of number game that is at issue here, but the important stages, the transformations of the life metamorphoses, that are at issue. At about the age of fourteen, the human being becomes sexually mature. A complete transformation of his soul life occurs, and that which inwardly enables him to judge independently occurs, to confront the world with what arises as judgment in his inner being, while from the seventh to the fourteenth year he can thrive if he has the authority to look up to.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Spiritual Forces in Education and in National Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-03-18","location":null,"word_count":445,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/334/1920-03-18/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200318s01.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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Aber derjenige, der tiefer hineinschaut in die menschliche Natur, der sieht auch, wie in dieser Zeit des Zahnwechsels im Kinde eine vollständige Metamorphose des ganzen Seelenlebens vor sich geht. Während in der ersten Zeit, von der Geburt bis zum siebenten Jahre, alles, was das Kind treibt, wozu das Kind sich geneigt, befähigt fühlt, herausstammt aus dem Prinzip der Imitation, der Nachahmung, aus einem Sich-Hineinfühlen in alles dasjenige, was die Umgebung tut, beginnt mit dem Zahnwechsel ungefähr gegen das siebente Jahr beim Kinde die Epoche, wo es durch seine inneren Fähigkeiten auf Autorität hin angelegt ist. Wie durch das selbstverständliche elementarische Leben wird das Kind bis zum siebenten Jahr hin selbst in seinen Handbewegungen, in der Formung seiner Sprache dasjenige tun, was die Erwachsenen seiner Umgebung tun. Es wird sich ganz hineinverweben in dasjenige, was ausströmt selbst von den Imponderabilien der Gedanken- und Vorstellungsrichtungen der Umgebung. Vom siebenten Jahr an braucht das Kind in seiner Umgebung den, von dem es glauben kann: der weiß in gewissem Sinne das Richtige; es braucht die Autorität. Man mag heute noch so sehr gegen Autorität wettern, man sollte berücksichtigen, daß Autorität vom siebenten Jahr an ungefähr bis zu dem Jahre, wo die Geschlechtsreife eintritt, etwas ist, unter dessen Einfluß der Mensch stehen muß, wenn er sich gesund entwickeln will. Denn eine zweite Epoche in der menschlichen Kindheit ist diese vom Zahnwechsel bis zu der Geschlechtsreife, bis zum vierzehnten Jahre ungefähr. Ungefähr, sage ich; hier ist nicht irgendein Zahlenspiel in Frage kommend, sondern es sind die wichtigen Abschnitte, die Umänderungen der Lebensmetamorphosen sind es, die in Frage kommen. Mit diesem vierzehnten Jahre ungefähr wird der Mensch geschlechtsreif. Da tritt eine vollständige Umwandlung seines Seelenlebens ein, da tritt dasjenige ein, was ihn innerlich befähigt, selbständig zu urteilen, der Welt sich entgegenzustellen mit dem, was als Urteil in seinem Inneren entsteht, während er vom siebenten bis vierzehnten Jahr recht gedeiht, wenn er neben sich die Autorität haben kann, zu der er aufschaut.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":415,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/334/1920-03-18/p017"}],"english":["GA 334/1920-03-18/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":415,"en_words":445,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9598,"original_word_count":9332,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200318s01.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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