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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... essential of what deserves to be called genuinely hu- man experience certainly not , if this doing becomes simply a matter of field trips , class projects , or even what too often pass for creative arts . These can all be very good ...
... essential of what- ever issue , person , or event confronts the teacher . Therewith the kinds of questions that make all the difference in education come to the fore : What factors are more essential Foreword to the Second Edition 133.
... essential than others in our efforts to understand , experience , and cope with life ? Wal- dorf schools wish to come into touch with what is most basic not only in human nature , but in the nature of Nature itself , in the great ...
... essential in life , be made from the truly essential in one- self . Life puts to every human soul the question : " What do you really want ? " Only the real Self can answer : " I truly want ... " and really mean it — therewith to find ...
... essential energies of the self are imagined to be animal drives , and the essence of the world process is imagined as mechanistic , how can the human soul , which is innately and in- corrigibly idealistic , feel at home ? The soul will ...
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