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Kingdom of Childhood Comments and Closing
Steiner’s advocacy for the truth and value of empiricism is belied by the methods he employs in discovery of, and support of empiricism. Steiner fails to uphold his assertions that empiricism is ...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 7
This lecture begins with an overview of methods for the 9-and-a-half or 10 year old through puberty, or around age 14. Steiner again emphasizes the importance of relationships in presenting these...
The Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 6
This lecture is dedicated to a rough outline of methodology to accomplish the objectives defined in the previous lectures. Namely, this lecture is about the how in bringing experiences to childre...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 5
“It is essential that you have some understanding of the real essence of every subject that you teach, so that you do not use things in your teaching that are remote from life itself. Everything ...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 4
“People who cannot endure being clumsy and doing things stupidly and imperfectly at first never really will be able to do them perfectly in the end out of their own inner self.” Childhood is noth...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 3
General Principles of Waldorf Education Steiner spends quite a lot of this lecture describing in strictly Anthroposophical terms the process of child development. It is a difficult and unclarifyi...
The Kingdom of Childhood Intro
‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’ ~Friedrich Nietzsche It is with this idea in mind that I aim to review Steiner’s lectures on education. It is to fulfill my own need for cl...
Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 2
Pg 18 Quote; ” But is is what you are that matters: if you are good this goodness will appear in your gestures; and if you are bad-tempered this also will appear in your gestures- in short, every...
The Kingdom of Childhood Lecture 1
[Intro] Pg 4 Quote; “Those who are truly the worst theorists are the least practical in life. A bank today is entirely composed of thoughts arising from theories. There is nothing practical in i...
Mental Illness and Morality
Is the cure to mental, emotional, psychological illness a moral assessment of the people in our lives? Does our inner experience, feeling life, or our true self rely fundamentally on moral truth,...
In Defense of Self-Knowledge
This post is a criticism of the recent interview of Kelly Brogan, MD as printed in the Wise Traditions Summer 2022 Journal. This article may be found at WestonAPrice.org under Journal Articles ta...
Book Description
Ideas, concepts, proposals, theories, explained.