{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 84/1923-04-30/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"An educational method of this kind shows us that we, as educators, must do what is beneficial for life as a whole. If we enter into such a study of life, we will see how something that is properly introduced into a child at an early age only comes to fruition in later life. I will give you an example here. We know people who, when they get older, perhaps when they are very old and enter into some society, they do not need to say much, they are something that brings calm, peace, something that blesses into society. These are people who, often only through the nuance of their words, through the way they speak, can have a magnificent effect on their fellow world, with moral impulses, dispensing grace. If we are not satisfied with observing life in shorter periods, and if we make the effort and are able to observe the whole of human life, then we know that such people, who bring such blessings, had the good fortune as children to look up in adoration to other people or to something that was shown to them. From this veneration between the ages of ten and fourteen develops that which makes us benefactors in later life, which, figuratively speaking, I want to say: No hand can rise in blessing in later life that has not learned to fold in prayer in childhood. This is just a pictorial way of indicating how a true knowledge of the human being brings such things to the child that the feeling for moral good and the antipathy for evil grow and live, that they grow as the human body itself grows. One has the feeling that if one brings sharp contours into definitions to the child, it would be as if one were to shackle the child's organism. We must give the child concepts and impulses that can grow like the organism, that can grow spiritually and soulfully, that spiritually carry within them the inner possibility of becoming ever richer and richer, so that later one can look back with joy in one's memory that the child's life has sprouted in the aged human body. I would like to show you with a few pictures how a real knowledge of the human being, gained in the way I described at the beginning of my lecture, can be applied to the education and development of the child. You will see in the Stuttgart School how it will have to prove to you what I have described to you here, how it provides, so to speak, the practical proof of life that exists to a certain degree, even if we want to be modest about the results.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Development and Education of the Human Being in the Light of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-30","location":null,"word_count":453,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/84/1923-04-30/p028","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":"What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/SOL2024/19230430p01.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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Das sind Menschen, die oftmals nur durch die Nuance der Worte, durch die Art und Weise wie sie sprechen, in großartiger Weise mit moralischen Impulsen, Gnade spendend auf ihre Mitwelt wirken können. Gibt man sich nicht zufrieden mit der Beobachtung des Lebens in kürzeren Zeiträumen, und gibt man sich die Mühe und kann man das ganze Menschenleben beobachten, dann weiß man, daß solche Menschen, die so segensbringend wirken, als Kinder das Glück hatten, zu anderen Menschen oder zu etwas, was ihnen entgegengebracht wurde, verehrend aufzuschauen. Aus dieser Verehrung zwischen dem zehnten und vierzehnten Lebensjahr entwickelt sich dasjenige, was uns zu Wohltätern macht im späteren Lebensalter, was ich, bildlich ausgedrückt, so sagen will: Keine Hand kann sich segnend erheben im späteren Lebensalter, die nicht gelernt hat im kindlichen Lebensalter, sich zum Gebet zu falten. Das soll nur bildhaft darauf hinweisen, wie eine wahre Menschenerkenntnis solches an das Kind heranbringt, daß wachse und lebe das Gefühl für das moralisch Gute, die Antipathie für das Böse, daß es wachse, wie der menschliche Leib selbst wächst. Man hat das Gefühl, wenn man scharfe Konturen in Definitionen an das Kind heranbringt, daß das so wäre, wie wenn man dem kindlichen Organismus Fesseln anlegen würde. Wir müssen dem Kinde Begriffe, Impulse geben, die wachsen können wie der Organismus, die geistig-seelisch wachsen können, die geistig in sich tragen die innere Möglichkeit, immer reicher und reicher zu werden, auf daß man später in der Erinnerung froh zurückblickt, daß das kindliche Leben aufsprießt in dem altgewordenen Menschenkörper. Durch wenige Bilder möchte ich Ihnen zeigen, wie eine wirkliche Menschenerkenntnis, die so errungen wird, wie ich es gleich zu Anfang meines Vortrages geschildert habe, auf die Pädagogik und Entwickelung des Kindes Anwendung findet. Man wird ja sehen an der Schule von Stuttgart, wie Ihnen diese wird beweisen müssen, was ich Ihnen hier geschildert habe, wie sie gewissermaßen den lebenspraktischen Beweis erbringt, der ingewissem Grade vorliegt, wenn wir in bezug auf die Ergebnisse auch bescheiden sein wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":424,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/84/1923-04-30/p028"}],"english":["GA 84/1923-04-30/p028"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":424,"en_words":453,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8408,"original_word_count":7960,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/SOL2024/19230430p01.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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