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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... look , rather than to assure the unfolding of creative commit- ment and courage on the part of students , to achieve their own independent understanding and make their own free choices in a direct approach to the shaping of life . The ...
... natural that some teachers should look for ways to rekindle it . And when the emotional or free " creative " approach has shown signs 1 of fanning subjective flames out of control , it 18 Education in Search of the Spirit.
... look on , and to guess and theorize ; scientists today generally suppose that there is no way , no hope , of coming to know the deeper meaning of events . Contemporary science avoids both the light of ultimate 20 Education in Search of ...
... look for the machine in ev- erything , including the human being , since psychology is main- ly on the lookout for the animal in human nature . But educators who must draw from both kinds of science , are signif- icantly influenced by ...
... look within themselves for the well- springs of interest and creativeness is just instinct or whim . Stu- dents so educated feel their humanity suffocating . Though their teachers may glorify sensitivity and caring , what they actually ...
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