Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Leitmotif of this book is inspired by passages from the fifth lecture of Rudolf Steiner's Education as a Social Problem, given shortly before the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart: One should not look superficially at the so-called cultural phenomena of our age, nor should one doubt that modern human beings have to arouse themselves to real comprehension of the Christ Impulse if evolution is to go forward in a healthy way.... This is something future educators and teachers must take into their consciousness.... One must teach from awareness that one has to bring about salvation in the case of every individual child; one has to steer children toward finding the Christ impulse in the course of life, toward finding a rebirth within themselves.... Such things must not live in the teacher as mere theory; they can be introduced into one's teaching only if one is strongly taken hold of by them in one's own soul.... "The best in me as a human being of this and following incarnations is what I find in myself as the Christ Impulse."... We should be clear, however, that this Christ impulse must not become the dogmatism of some religious body.... Human intelligence, left to itself, travels the path toward the ahrimanic; it can become active for the good only through taking in the true Christ impulse.
Synopsis
The Leitmotif of this book is inspired by lecture 5 of Rudolf Steiner's Education as a Force for Social Change (Aug. 16, 1919), given shortly before the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart.
In that lecture, Steiner stated: "Children are different today than they were some decades ago. This is clear even from superficial observation. Children need us to teach them differently than they were taught some decades ago. Teachers need to educate children with an awareness that what they are really doing is saving the children, and that they need to bring the children a way of finding Christ as an Impulse in the course of their lives, that is, of finding their own rebirth."
Synopsis
The general theme of this book was inspired by passages from lecture 5 in Rudolf Steiner's lecture course, Education as a Force for Social Change, which took place shortly before the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart:
"We should not look at modern cultural developments superficially, nor should we doubt that modern people who want to work toward healthier development should attempt to achieve a true comprehension of the Christ Impulse.... Teachers need to develop a consciousness of that.... Teachers need to educate children with an awareness that what they are really doing is saving the children, and that they need to bring the children a way of finding Christ as an Impulse in the course of their lives, that is, of finding their own rebirth. Such things cannot develop in teaching when, for example, you have only a simple, theoretical comprehension of them; they develop in teaching only when your soul is strongly affected by them.... Now, you must, of course, be aware that you will not find Christ as Impulse in the dogmatism of some religious group.... I would ask that you give particular attention to what a spiritual scientific foundation reveals, namely, that human intelligence, left to itself, will drift toward the Ahrimanic path and that we can direct it toward the good only by accepting Christ as the true Impulse."