Self-education in the Light of Spiritual Science

Contemporary cultural conditions, and in particular the prospects for the near future, will undoubtedly attach ever greater importance to what might be called human self-education. This evening, in accordance with the spiritual scientific worldview that I represent here, I would like to say a few words about this self-education of human beings, albeit only in a general way, given the breadth of the subject. I would like to emphasize from the outset that today's lecture does not primarily intend to discuss the kind of self-education that can be called the education of human beings in spiritual research. Rather, this evening's talk will focus on the kind of self-education that plays a role in ordinary, everyday life, which must, so to speak, precede education in spiritual research, and which is of significance and value not only for this, but for every human being in general.