{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I can only give isolated examples of the practical effects of anthroposophy. Thirdly, I would like to mention the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, which has already found a certain following here too. This Waldorf School was founded by Emil Molt and is run by me. It is run in such a way that it is not intended to oppose the great achievements of pedagogy and didactics of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It is mindful of the great pedagogical maxims that are there. But precisely those aspects that are often expressed today in the field of education as a longing for reform show that something is needed to implement the well-intentioned maxims of the great educators in practice in the individual. Anthroposophy does not want to replace old maxims with new theoretical ones in this field, but to serve their practical implementation. That is why the Waldorf School in Stuttgart is definitely not a school where Anthroposophy is to be grafted into children; that is far from our minds. We have therefore quietly entrusted Catholic religious education to the Catholic pastor and Protestant religious education to the Protestant pastor. Only for those children who would otherwise be dissidents have we provided a free religious education. The religious aspect of the world view is not what gives the Waldorf School its specific character. What it seeks to achieve is that anthroposophical knowledge teaches us to recognize the human being in terms of body, soul and spirit, to recognize this in the child; that, based on our knowledge of the human being, we can read the curriculum for each school year, for each month, for each week from the child; that it is only through a true knowledge of the human being that we can truly establish the art of education and the art of teaching. In the practical side of education and teaching, in the “how” of how to carry it out, we should let what anthroposophy can give have its effect. And if people were not so opposed to anthroposophy, purely out of misunderstanding, as they are, then far more consideration would be given to such things as occurred this summer during the anthroposophical congress in Stuttgart.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":371,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p042","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":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Allein gerade dasjenige, was heute oftmals auf dem Gebiete des Erziehungswesens als Sehnsucht nach Reformen auftritt, zeigt, dass etwas notwendig ist, um die gutgemeinten Maximen der großen Pädagogen im Einzelnen praktisch auszuführen. Nicht neue theoretische Maximen an die Stelle der alten will auf diesem Gebiet Anthroposophie setzen, sondern der praktischen Ausführung will sie dienen. Daher ist die Freie Waldorfschule in Stuttgart durchaus eine Schule, wo nicht etwa Anthroposophie in die Kinder hineingepfropft werden soll, das liegt uns ganz fern. Wir haben deshalb ruhig den katholischen Religionsunterricht dem katholischen Seelsorger, den evangelischen Religionsunterricht dem evangelischen Seelsorger übertragen. Nur für diejenigen Kinder, die Dissidentenkinder sein würden sonst, haben wir durch einen freien Religionsunterricht gesorgt. Dasjenige, was Weltanschauung auf einem religiösen Gebiete ist, das ist nicht dasjenige wodurch die Waldorfschule ihren spezifischen Charakter bekommt. Dasjenige, wodurch sie wirken will, ist, dass anthroposophische Erkenntnis den Menschen erkennen lehrt nach Leib, Seele und Geist, erkennen lehrt schon im Kinde; dass man aus Menschenkenntnis heraus für jedes Schuljahr, für jeden Monat, für jede Woche den Lehrplan aus dem Kinde ablesen kann; dass man aus wahrer Menschenkenntnis heraus wirklich die pädagogische Kunst und die didaktische Kunst, die Erziehungs- und Unterrichtskunst begründen kann. In das Handhaben der Erziehung und des Unterrichts, in das «Wie», wie man die Sache ausführt, soll hineinwirken dasjenige, was Anthroposophie geben kann. Und wenn man dieser Anthroposophie nicht eben noch so antipathisch gegenüberstünde, rein aus Missverständnis, wie man das tut, so würden ja solche Dinge, wie sie zum Beispiel in diesem Sommer aufgetreten sind während des anthroposophischen Kongresses in Stuttgart, weit mehr berücksichtigt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":347,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p042"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-23/p042"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":347,"en_words":371,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10817,"original_word_count":10371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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