When students are given fixed and finalized abstractions from the beginning, they do not have to use their own inner forces to overcome the resistance of the world to arrive at truth or to create beauty. The result is that their inner pictures are devoid of life. To arrive at a truth or to create beauty that reflects the order and harmony of the ......
Included here are many of the familiar games we often wish we had gathered together between two covers, but also a wealth of lesser-known, but equally worthy games. Both new and experienced teachers will be grateful to have so much material to choose from. This is an eminently practical book-the directions are clear, the drawings delightful and ......
Self-help for adults.In Book II, we continue to use form drawing, using the curved and straight lines as in Book I, beginning to add the formations of the letters of the alphabet. Our goals are: 1. to reach the artistic experience of writing2. to lead you towards an experience of painting the letters3. to reduce tension, create a rhythmic flow, ......
Self-help for adults.In Book II, we continue to use form drawing, using the curved and straight lines as in Book I, beginning to add the formations of the letters of the alphabet. Our goals are: 1. to reach the artistic experience of writing2. to lead you towards an experience of painting the letters3. to reduce tension, create a rhythmic flow, ......
A very helpful introduction.We asked our respected friend, Alan Howard, who has a broad experience on two continents in the field of Waldorf education, both as a Class Teacher and as an Administrator, to write a brief exposition in the form of a dialogue between an interested parent and a Waldorf school teacher with some years of experience. We ......
Roy Wilkinson lays out an approach to the four essential personality tendencies of children during the early elementary grades. What we call "temperaments" today were known in Greek times as the "four humors," which medical science at the time considered very important. Knowledge of the temperaments has fallen into the background, but Rudolf ......
Tuning oneself to the deep significance of early childhood.The first three years may be compared to the overture of an opera, in which the main themes are sounded in the course of life and then elaborated and transformed in accordance with our destinies. It is the task of parents and teachers to become more sensitive and more attentive to what ......
"On the principle of metamorphosis. For spiritually striving people, uniting to serve mankind beyond the limits of their own work on earth, Rudolf Steiner increasingly will become an example because he took Goethe's artistic creations and scientific achievements as a foundation for his work. These he carried further and, from them, developed many ......
