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She shows us that \"ripeness is all,\" that nothing can be taught to the child until it is ready to receive it or knowledge will sprout prematurely and wither early. This book will help us approach the child with sensitivity and insight.","brand":"Marjorie Spock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322641588519,"sku":"9780880101271","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880101271_L_b23dbd9a-ba71-42ec-9f27-812a8f49f56f.jpg?v=1748032252"},{"product_id":"9780880103947-the-spirit-of-the-waldorf-school","title":"The Spirit of the Waldorf School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 lectures and an essay, 1919-1920 (CW 297)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld War I destroyed the structures, values, and self-confidence that created the seeming greatness of the nineteenth century. In its place stood ruins and the shards of a civilization. In response to this, Emil Molt—the director of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory and a student of Rudolf Steiner—decided to establish a school to educate people who could create a new culture. Thus, the Waldorf school movement was begun. Rudolf Steiner agreed to act as the school’s consultant, and his insights guided the school in accomplishing this ambitious task. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe goal of this education was that, through living inner work guided by the insights of Rudolf Steiner, the teachers would develop in the children such power of thought, depth of feeling, and strength of will that they would emerge from their school years as full members of the human community, able to meet and transform the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lectures occurred around the opening of the first Waldorf school. They serve as an excellent, inspiring introduction to Waldorf education as a whole. Here Steiner outlines—with freshness, immediacy, and excitement—the goals and intentions of a new form of education and speaks to parents of prospective students. He explains the school's guiding principles and describes how parents must participate, with understanding and interest, in the awakening of their children's creative forces so that a healthier society can come about. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman sources: \u003ci\u003eDie Waldorfschule und ihr Geist\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 297); \"Die pädagogische Zielsetzung der Waldorfschule in Stuttgart,\" from \u003ci\u003eSoziale Zukunft,\u003c\/i\u003e Feb. 1920 (GA 24).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322644767015,"sku":"9780880103947","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880103947_L.jpg?v=1778605325"},{"product_id":"9780880104333-rudolf-steiner-in-the-waldorf-school","title":"Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLectures and addresses, 1919-1924 (CW 298)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Ultimately, isn't it a very holy and religious obligation to cultivate and educate the divine spiritual element that manifests anew in every human being who is born? Isn't this educational service a religious service in the highest sense of the word? Isn't it so that our holiest stirrings, which we dedicate to religious feeling, must all come together in our service at the altar when we attempt to cultivate the divine spiritual aspect of the human being, whose potentials are revealed in the growing child? Science that comes alive! Art that comes alive! Religion that comes alive! In the end, that’s what education is.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner,\u003c\/b\u003e Sept. 7, 1919\u003cp\u003eSponsored by the industrialist Emil Molt and inspired by the philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the first Free Waldorf school opened in Stuttgart, Germany, on September 7, 1919. Since then, the Waldorf movement has become international with many hundreds of schools around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains all of the more-or-less informal talks given by Steiner in the Stuttgart school from 1919 to 1924. Included are speeches given by him at various school assemblies, parents' evenings, and other meetings. Steiner spoke here with spontaneity, warmth, and enthusiasm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a unique glimpse of the real Steiner and how he viewed the school and the educational philosophy he brought into being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner in der Waldorfschule, Vortäge und Ansprachen\u003c\/b\u003e, Stuttgart, 1919–1924\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 298).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322644308263,"sku":"9780880104333","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880104333_L_48ca9ee3-ab44-45cf-bfa9-92c28c6aa025.jpg?v=1748032255"},{"product_id":"9780880104111-education-as-a-force-for-social-change","title":"Education as a Force for Social Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 lectures, Dornach \u0026amp; Stuttgart, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eApr. 23 – \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAug. 17, 1919 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e(CW 296, 192, 330\/331)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese illuminating lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf school, located in Stuttgart, following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life—psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and growing cynicism—Steiner recognized that any solution for society must address not only economic and legal issues but also that of a free spiritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner also saw the need to properly nurture in children the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love at the appropriate stages of development in order to create mature adults who are inwardly prepared to fulfill the demands of a truly healthy society—adults who are able to assume the responsibilities of freedom, equality, and brotherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelating these themes to an understanding of the human as a threefold being of thought, feeling, and volition, and against the background of historical forces at work in human consciousness, Steiner lays the ground for a profound revolution in the ways we think about education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included here are three lectures on the social basis of education, a lecture to public school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company, after which they asked him to form a school for their children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman sources: \u003ci\u003eDie Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 296); lectures 4, 5, and 6, the \"Volkspädagogik\" lectures in \u003ci\u003eGeisteswissenschaftliche Behandlung sozialer und pädagogischer Fragen\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 192); lectures 2 and 11, \u003ci\u003eNeugestaltung des sozialen Organismus\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 330–331).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322645455143,"sku":"9780880104111","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880104111_L_9f5e7f2a-b5cf-4114-adfa-17bce679ea03.jpg?v=1748032256"},{"product_id":"9780880104104-the-childs-changing-consciousness","title":"The Child's Changing Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 lectures, Dornach, April 15–22, 1923 (CW 306);\u003cbr\u003eplus “Introductory Words to a Eurythmy Performance” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree and a half years after the founding of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany, these talks were given to an audience of Swiss school teachers, most having little knowledge of Anthroposophy. This is the context of these lectures, which are among Rudolf Steiner's most accessible talks on education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teacher who attended the lectures wrote in the Berne school paper:\u003c\/p\u003e“Every morning, as we listened anew to Dr. Steiner, we felt we had come closer to him and understood better what he had to say and how he had to say it. Daily, we newcomers gathered, asking ourselves: Why are more of our colleagues not here? It is untrue that anthroposophy limits a person, develops blinkers, or avoids real life.... Step by step, Dr. Steiner shows its application to life...illumining the details and disclosing their connection with profound questions of life and existence. I came to the conference to stimulate my school work. I found benefit in abundance. But also, I unexpectedly received a greater richness for heart and soul—and, from this in turn shall stream richness for my classes.”\u003cp\u003eIn other words, these lectures are ideal for anyone who is approaching Waldorf education for the first time. Using language that any teacher or parent can understand, Steiner goes into the essentials of his educational philosophy, providing many examples and anecdotes to convey his meaning. In this way, against the background of the developing child, he allows the curriculum and the method of teaching to emerge as the commonsense conclusion of practical experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDie pädagogisch Praxis vom Geichtspunkte geisteswissenschaftlicher Menschenerkenntnis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 306).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roland Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322644668711,"sku":"9780880104104","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880104104_L.jpg?v=1748032256"},{"product_id":"9780880104081-discussions-with-teachers","title":"Discussions with Teachers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 discussions with teachers of the Stuttgart Waldorf School, Aug. 21 - Sept. 6, 1919; 3 lectures on the curriculum, Sept. 6, 1919 (CW 295)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“In spiritual science we divide the human being into ‘I’-being, astral body, etheric body, and physical body. In an ideal human being, the harmony predestined by the cosmic plan would naturally predominate among these four human principles. But in reality, this is not so with any individual. Thus, it can be seen that the human being, when given over to the physical plane, is not yet really complete; education and teaching, however, should serve to make the human being complete. One of the four elements rules in each child, and education and teaching must harmonize these four principles.” —\u003cb\u003e Rudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two weeks, prior to the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Rudolf Steiner intensively prepared the individuals he had chosen to become the first Waldorf teachers. At 9:00 a.m. each day, he gave the course now translated as \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Human Experience;\u003c\/i\u003e at 11:00 a.m., \u003ci\u003ePractical Advice to Teachers;\u003c\/i\u003e and then, after lunch, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., he held the informal \"discussions\" published in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tone is spontaneous and relaxed. Steiner does not prescribe specific methods but introduces topics and situations, offering guidelines and allocating practical assignments that are taken up and discussed in the next session. The discussions are filled with insights and suggestions in many different areas of teaching—history, geography, botany, zoology, form drawing, mathematics, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeech exercises are included. This edition also includes, for the first time in English, three important lectures on the curriculum, given the day just before the school opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese fifteen discussions constitute an essential part of the basic training material for Waldorf teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscussions with Teachers\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eErziehungskunst. 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We do not want to look only at what the human being experiences after death, that is, at the spiritual continuation of the physical. We want to be aware that physical existence is a continuation of what higher beings have done without our assistance. Our form of educating can have the correct attitude only when we are aware that our work with young people is a continuation of what higher beings have done before birth.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis course on education contains some of the most remarkable and significant lectures ever given by Rudolf Steiner. Because these lectures were given to teachers, however, they have suffered the misconception that they are useful only to teachers. Any teacher who wants to teach in a way that encompasses the whole child certainly needs a functional understanding of what Steiner presents here, but these lectures will also greatly benefit parents, psychologists, counselors, or anyone else involved with child development. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner gives his most concise and detailed account of human nature in these lectures, which are absolutely essential for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Steiner's spiritual science. Those who are willing to work through this work will discover here a new, powerful, convincing, and profoundly phenomenological “anthropology” of human spiritual psychology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these lectures, Steiner laid out for the first time the principles that form the basis for renewing the art of teaching. \u003ci\u003eThe Foundations of Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is probably the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis of Waldorf educational principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the German editions: \u003ci\u003eAllgemeine Menschenkunde als Grundlage der Pädagogik\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 239); appendix from \u003ci\u003eGeist und Stoff. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeben und Tod\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 66). 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Steiner begins by describing the union of science, art, religion and morality, which was the aim of all his work and underlies his concept of education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst this background, many of the lectures describe a new developmental psychology. On this basis, having established how children’s consciousness develops, Steiner discusses how different subjects should be presented so that individuals can grow and flourish inwardly. Only if the child absorbs the right subject in the right way at the right time can the inner freedom so necessary for life in the modern world become second nature.\u003c\/p\u003e“Readers of Steiner’s lectures printed here will be ‘quietly astonished’ and ‘genuinely enthusiastic.’ After an introduction, in which he speaks of reuniting science (intellectual knowledge), art, and morality once again, he turns to the principles of Greek education, in which body, soul, and spirit were still a unity. He then traces the development through the Middle Ages, during which new, evolving elements were added. In our time, he says, we must understand the concrete connection of the spirit with the human being, so that thinking, feeling, and willing can once more become alive. He relates this to the child’s developmental stages, as well as the human basics such a sleeping and waking. Then he turns to the specifics of the curriculum: reading, writing, nature study, arithmetic, geometry, history physics, chemistry, crafts, language, and religion. Finally, he turns to memory, the temperaments, physical culture, art, and the actual organization of a Waldorf school—to which this volume is, all in all, one of the best introductions.” —\u003cb\u003eChristopher Bamford,\u003c\/b\u003e from his introduction\u003cp\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003eGegenwärtiges Geistesleben und Erziehung\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 307). 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Acknowledging that modern physicists had come to regard Goethe's ideas on physics as a \"kind of nonsense.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner contrasts the traditional scientific approach, which treats phenomena as evidence of \"natural laws,\" with Goethean science, which rejects the idea of an abstract law behind natural phenomena and instead seeks to be a \"rational description of nature.\" Steiner then corrects the mechanistic reductionism practiced by scientific positivists, emphasizing instead the validity of human experience and pointing toward a revolution in scientific paradigms that would reclaim ground for the subject—the human being—in the study of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeisteswissenschaftliche impulse zur Entwikkelung der Physik, Erster Naturwissenschaftlicher Kurs: Licht, Farbe, Ton-Masse, Elektrizität\u003c\/b\u003e, Magnetismus\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 320).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322645160231,"sku":"9780880104999","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880104999_L_4a0b9137-aa12-4039-91bb-bbe4cad81ed8.jpg?v=1748032257"},{"product_id":"9780880104937-school-renewal","title":"School Renewal","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a result of today's crisis in education, people are beginning to realize that schools involve far more than providing children with knowledge and skills. 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