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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... give much more freedom and responsibility to individual schools , providing parents at the same time with a correspondingly greater freedom of choice among schools . The Epilogue considers the implication of the foregoing arguments for ...
... give precedence to the third center of human response that lies between the kind of know- ing related to the brain ... gives no clue as to what the new beginning actually intends or involves . The first 12 Education in Search of the Spirit.
... give them at least some idea of what to expect . It has occurred to me that a subtitle such as the following might begin to suggest the simple but revolu- tionary ideal at work here : SUCH - AND - SUCH WALDORF SCHOOL A School of the ...
... give our children is to help them activate this deepest center of being in themselves . We seek methods that show promise of being able to awaken , draw forth , and strengthen what lies in our children as the seed of all creativeness ...
... give them objective work to do . In both student and teacher , the one spirit that stands behind the several soul powers requires these shifts from knowing to feeling to doing , and back again . The human self is not free , cannot be in ...
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