Steiner and Waldorf
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In a message dated 8/8/04 10:08:18 PM, jenneferh2000@... writes:
<< Technically, according to Steiner, a child is not
ready to learn something until a particular age. >>
AND Steiner was neither an educator or a child development specialist.
He was a philosopher, and studied science and medicine (or made some medicine
up, as he made some education up). There's a ton of stuff written about and
by him, but here's something easy with a timeline:
http://oaks.nvg.org/wm6ra6.html
A quote:
-=- In Rudolf Steiner spiritual wisdom assumed a new shape. He began to
operate from pure thought, and detected living thoughts filling the Universe. As a
result of his discoveries, Steiner was bent on putting force and life into
thinking, through thinking, within thinking. His basic philosophic works,
especially the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, and many exercises he devised, are
directed to this end, to strengthen the thinking faculties in man till thinking
works itself on and up and gets free from the brain system.-=-
Here's some more, and at the risk of irritating his fans, I think it can be
summarized as "he pulled this stuff out of his ass," or "out of the air."
-=- After reaching this stage of "independent thinking", Steiner discovered
that this "living thinking" could awaken parts of him from "above". Thought
that had risen into subtility, could even impart life to a dormant spiritual
perception in Steiner. From about 1900 Steiner began to pursue this path with
determination, and gradually came to discern three forms of higher knowledge:
1. Imagination: a higher seeing of the spiritual world in revealing images;
2. Inspiration: a higher hearing of the spiritual world, through which it
reveals its creative forces and its creative order;
3. Intuition: the stage at which an intuitive penetration into the sphere of
Spiritual Beings becomes possible.
Equipped with his few-found imagination, inspiration, and intuition, Steiner
developed a substantial body of spiritual and practical knowledge up to his
death in 1925. He gave it the name "Anthroposophy"-=-
Another (scarier) bio is here:
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Anthroposophy/Steiner.htm
Sandra
<< Technically, according to Steiner, a child is not
ready to learn something until a particular age. >>
AND Steiner was neither an educator or a child development specialist.
He was a philosopher, and studied science and medicine (or made some medicine
up, as he made some education up). There's a ton of stuff written about and
by him, but here's something easy with a timeline:
http://oaks.nvg.org/wm6ra6.html
A quote:
-=- In Rudolf Steiner spiritual wisdom assumed a new shape. He began to
operate from pure thought, and detected living thoughts filling the Universe. As a
result of his discoveries, Steiner was bent on putting force and life into
thinking, through thinking, within thinking. His basic philosophic works,
especially the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, and many exercises he devised, are
directed to this end, to strengthen the thinking faculties in man till thinking
works itself on and up and gets free from the brain system.-=-
Here's some more, and at the risk of irritating his fans, I think it can be
summarized as "he pulled this stuff out of his ass," or "out of the air."
-=- After reaching this stage of "independent thinking", Steiner discovered
that this "living thinking" could awaken parts of him from "above". Thought
that had risen into subtility, could even impart life to a dormant spiritual
perception in Steiner. From about 1900 Steiner began to pursue this path with
determination, and gradually came to discern three forms of higher knowledge:
1. Imagination: a higher seeing of the spiritual world in revealing images;
2. Inspiration: a higher hearing of the spiritual world, through which it
reveals its creative forces and its creative order;
3. Intuition: the stage at which an intuitive penetration into the sphere of
Spiritual Beings becomes possible.
Equipped with his few-found imagination, inspiration, and intuition, Steiner
developed a substantial body of spiritual and practical knowledge up to his
death in 1925. He gave it the name "Anthroposophy"-=-
Another (scarier) bio is here:
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Anthroposophy/Steiner.htm
Sandra