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The Education of Children from the Standpoint of Theosophy

By Rudolf Steiner

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

Discover a revolutionary approach to schooling where children are nurtured on spiritual, emotional, and intellectual levels.

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2017-09-20
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"The Education of Children from the Standpoint of Theosophy" by Rudolf Steiner is a book from the early 1900s that looks at how Theosophy, a spiritual philosophy, can shape how we teach kids. It suggests kids should be taught while keeping in mind that they are more than just physical beings and that their education should help them grow in every way. Steiner provides the structure of the person as a guide to education, explaining that childhood development happens in layers, each with its own needs. As children get older, teaching methods should also change, starting with learning by copying, then by looking up to heroes, and finally allowing children to develop as moral, emotionally intelligent people.

About the Author

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.

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