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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... Feeling mediates between thinking and will : it heralds the message that the world will awaken in the self , and it pre- pares the deed that the self will imprint upon the world . The instability of the educational method in America ...
... feeling to doing , and back again . The human self is not free , cannot be in control , when education de- velops soul powers onesidedly . It is the very center of our hu- manity that requires and strives to establish in us the balance ...
... feels , without changing schools , thoroughly impris- oned in subjectivity . Both in competitiveness and in self- indulgence , the student becomes the very image of self - seeking and self - concern . It also happens that students who ...
... feeling of worth that comes from , on the one hand , a firm grounding in the realities of the outer world and , on the other hand , obedience to the higher judgment in each soul that wants to establish itself over against merely ...
... feeling ; and let such feeling express itself through moral and artistic deeds . Let the individual student learn to regard personal preferences , private needs , and desires , from a certain distance . Never let the student be " turned ...
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