{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1921-01-28/p108","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us assume that we first need to teach children the concept of the immortality of the soul. We try to do this – as I said, I am talking about an example, it could easily be explained differently – but let us assume that we try to teach the child through an image. We point to the butterfly pupa. The butterfly emerges. We then try to show how the soul of a human being also leaves the body at death and enters a [different] world, albeit now in the invisible, and so on. You can think up something like that. But if you just make it up, you will notice – you need pedagogical experience to do so, but if you have it, you will notice: if you have just thought up this point of view – I am so clever and the child is so stupid, I have to bring it to the child, then in reality you are not teaching it to the child. You teach it to the brain, to word recognition, but not to the heart. You only teach the heart what you can believe in yourself; then you teach it, I might say with joy, if there really is something real in it, if you can say to yourself, 'Yes, I have a correspondence there; I believe in it.' That is precisely what is formed in our spiritual science, but not in a nebulous, hazy way. For that is something that is rejected by spiritual science, as it is meant here.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p108","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 Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.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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Wenn man es aber nur ausdenkt, wird man bemerken — man braucht dazu allerdings pädagogische Erfahrung, aber wenn man diese hat, wird man bemerken: Wenn man nur ausgedacht hat diesen Gesichtspunkt — ich bin so gescheit und das Kind ist so dumm, ich muss ihm das Bild bringen, dann bringt man es dem Kinde in Wirklichkeit doch nicht bei. Man bringt es dem Gehirnapparat, dem Worterkennen bei, aber nicht dem Herzen bei. Dem Herzen bringt man nur dasjenige bei, woran man selber glauben kann; dann bringt man es, ich möchte sagen mit Freude bei, wenn wirklich etwas Reales darinnen ist, wenn man sich sagen kann: Ja, da habe ich eine Entsprechung; ich glaube daran. Das ist gerade das, was sich bildet bei unserer Geisteswissenschaft, aber nicht [auf] eine nebulose, verschwommene Art. 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