Robert Steiner and his lectures on education
I do not know how many of you know about the works of this brilliant person that wrote so many wonderful things in the 20s. The lecture I am referring to today was written in 1922 and it is a great example of in-depth analysis of understanding Antroposophy or Spiritual Science, that is the science that can help the teacher recognise in single concrete instances the connection between body, soul and spirit in the child. I will offer you some interesting ideas taken from his lecture. The teacher who lets the anthroposophic knowledge of man work upon his thought and feeling, comes, as we have seen, to a kind of artistic vision of the growing child, who is to him as individual, as full of mystery and enigma, as is every great work of art. But this is not all. Out of such a vision of the child proceeds also the manner in which the lesson is handled, the actu...