Education of the Child: And Early Lectures on Education

Education of the Child: And Early Lectures on Education

As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the soul spiritual processes of human development, describing the need to understand how the being of a child develops through successive â€œbirths,â€ beginning with the physical bodyâ€™s entry into earthly life, and culminating in the emergence of the I-being with adulthood. Also included here are several early lectures on education (1906â€“1911). Contents: â€œThe Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science,â€ essay; â€œTeaching from a Foundation of Spiritual Insight,â€ Berlin, May 14, 1906; â€œEducation in the Light of Spiritual Science,â€ Cologne, December 1, 1906; â€œEducation and Spiritual Science,â€ Berlin, January 24, 1907; â€œInterests, Talent, and Educating Children,â€ Nuremberg, November 14, 1910; and â€œInterests, Talent, and Education,â€ Berlin, January 12, 1911.

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