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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... heart to be touched more intimately and lastingly , and for real caring and commitment , something still more essential must be added to mind and will . The riddle or problem of would - be holistic education comes into focus here . For ...
... heart in intimate nearness . The title of this book's second edition has therefore been altered , further to emphasize just this often neglected , this hidden factor . The kind of interaction serious educators are searching for , to ...
... heart , little by little , the ability to purge ourselves of merely instinctive behavior . We would prefer at all times to know clearly what we are doing , and we would prefer to do only what we ourselves in- tend according to clear ...
... heart and will ? Surely not , for sound , responsible thinking should obviously be willed through and through ; it should also both use and renew the life of feeling . At the other pole , must creative activity banish men- tal ...
... heart wants from knowledge . It limits its inquiry to externals : physical substance and force . Most simply stated , the present forms of natural science are able to investigate the world only insofar as the world is a mech- anism ...
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