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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... of Knowledge 107 PART THREE 8. Genius as the Goal of Education 9. Authority , Discipline , and Freedom 10. The Next Step 147 115 133 AFTERWORD 169 APPENDICES 177 BIBLIOGRAPHY 235 Acknowledgments To Harper & Row , Publishers , Inc. for.
... Goal of Education " shows that , strange as it may seem , every child is close to genius , and that the primary goal of education should be to preserve and further enlist this genius . " The Next Step " addresses itself to the idea of ...
... goal . For this reason , I have come to wonder what kind of lead the " Waldorf " schools ( and others that find themselves similarly motivated ) might offer to inquirers , to give them at least some idea of what to expect . It has ...
... goal is to be fully present in awareness and wholly in control of our behavior . We may dream , as animals do , but we are not doomed to dream . An- imal instincts may assert themselves in us ; but we have at heart , little by little ...
... goals , both usu- ally take for granted , start from , and employ throughout , the same ideas . They work from very similar conceptions of human nature and the world in which we live . These concepts are adopt- ed from the culture of ...
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