Education in Search of the Spirit: Essays on American EducationSteinerBooks, 1996 - Всего страниц: 236 Real education will always seek to strengthen what is best in the human soul: its longing for the experience of spiritual truth that brings into the self an objective appreciation of the noble aspects of its own nature, together with a subjective sense of real affinity with the rest of humanity, the earth planet as a whole, and the great cosmos above and beyond. The premise of this book is that a human being is a being of body, soul, and spirit, whose core is "eternal spirit," from which center one should strive to live. From this perspective, the aim of true education is to help our children activate this deepest center in themselves. For this, living, intuitive thinking must be brought to life in a new way. The organ for such thinking is the heart, where will and feeling join in uniting self and world, morality and truth, love and action. This book is in three parts. The first poses the problem; the second describes the Waldorf approach as a solution; and the third deals with questions of special interest to parents and educators alike, such as authority, discipline, and freedom; the nature of "genius"; and the question of cultural pluralism. The first edition of this book was titled "The Experience of Knowledge" in response to a clear call for experience in education. Certainly, if the sole purpose of education is to acquire information, learning becomes dry, abstract, and deadening. To have meaningful consequence in a person's life, "coming to know" must become an experience. Too often, however, such experience is understood simply as doing -- field trips, class projects, and so on. But "doing," if unconnected to the whole person, is just activity. To become true experience, it must speak out of, and toward, a student's secret center: the spirit. Hence, the author affirms that authentic education is always in search of the spirit. |
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... Creative Research , Inc. ) , and from Earl Kelley and Marie Rasey , Education and the Nature of Man ( Copyright , 1952 , by Harper & Brothers ) . To the Viking Press , Inc. for permission to quote from Abraham H. Maslow , The Farther ...
... creative arts . These can all be very good , and they do tend to foster caring ; but for heart to be touched more intimately and lastingly , and for real caring and commitment , something still more essential must be added to mind and ...
... creative realities of soul and spirit are to be discovered in or behind all things — I owe chiefly to the still more basic spiritual - scientific investiga- tions of Rudolf Steiner . It was his insight into human nature in its relation ...
... creative commit- ment and courage on the part of students , to achieve their own independent understanding and make their own free choices in a direct approach to the shaping of life . The direct approach aims always to recognize and ...
... creative power . Harmony and goodness prevail —the veritable beginning of a new Heaven and a new Earth ! All the dissatisfactions and dissensions today , the anger and warfare , the loneliness and fear , the perverse pursuits of power ...
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