{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So anthroposophy is there to make people aware of what they should remember later. And those who want to prevent anthroposophy want to keep people stupid so that they do not remember anything. And that is the important thing, gentlemen, to realize that man must first learn to apply thoughts correctly. Today people demand that thoughts be defined and that books contain correct definitions. Yes, gentlemen, even in ancient Greece people knew this. One man in particular wanted to teach people how to define. Today, in school, they say: You have to learn: What is light? I once had a classmate; we went to elementary school together, then I went to a different school and he trained as a teacher at the teacher's seminary. I met him again when I was seventeen; by then he was already a fully-fledged teacher. I asked him: What did you learn about light? He said: Light is the cause of the seeing of bodies. There is nothing to be said against that. You might just as well say: What is poverty? Poverty comes from pauvret@! That is about the same as someone defining it that way. But you have to learn a lot of such stuff.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Why Don't We Remember Our Past Lives?","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-18","location":null,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-18/p045","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230418p02.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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Heute sagt man in der Schule: Du mußt lernen: Was ist das Licht? — Ich hatte einmal einen Kameraden; wir sind zusammen in der Volksschule gewesen, dann kam ich in eine andere Schule, und er wurde im Lehrerseminar zum Lehrer ausgebildet. Ich habe ihn mit siebzehn Jahren wieder getroffen; da ist er schon ein ausgeprägter Lehrer gewesen. Da fragte ich ihn: Was hast denn du über das Licht gelernt? - Da sagte er: Licht ist die Ursache des Sehens der Körper. - Da ist ja gar nichts einzuwenden. Man kann ebenso sagen: Was ist denn die Armut? Die Armut kommt von der pauvret@! Das ist ungefähr dasselbe, wenn einer so definiert. 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