The Foundations of Human Experience: (CW 293 & 66) (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 1)

This 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 developing children. Steiner 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. In these lectures, Steiner laid out for the first time the principles that form the basis for renewing the art of teaching. It is the primary text for studying and understanding Waldorf education. Opening address, Stuttgart, August 20, 1919 14 lectures, Stuttgart, August 21-September 5, 1919 (CW 293) 2 lectures, Berlin, March 15 and 17, 1917 (CW 66) Although we can physically see children only after their birth, we need to be aware that birth is also a continuation. 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. Rudolf Steiner This 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. Steiner 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. In these lectures, Steiner laid out for the first time the principles that form the basis for renewing the art of teaching. The Foundations of Human Experience is probably the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis of Waldorf educational principles. Translated from the German Allgemeine Menschenkunde als Grundlage der Pdagogik (GA 239); appendix from Geist und Stoff. Leben und Tod (GA 66). An earlier translation was titled Study of Man.

This lecture course, newly translated for this series, 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 under the misconception that they are meant only for teachers. Of course, a functional and understanding of their contents is necessary for any teacher desiring to teach in a way that encompasses the needs and essence of the whole child; but this understanding is also necessary for parents, psychologist, and counselors. Furthermore, because Steiner here gives his most concise and detailed account of the nature of the human being, these lectures are also absolutely fundamental to anyone seeking to understand anthroposophy and the anthroposophical view of the world . Anyone willing to work through these lectures will discover in them a new, powerful, convincing, and profoundly phenomenological "anthropology:" or human spiritual psychology. On the other hand, for anyone wishing to study Waldorf education, this is the primary text. These are the lectures in which, for the first time, and with the full excitement of the new venture, Rudolf Steiner set forth the principles upon which the art teaching could be renewed

THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Foreword by Henry Barnes......Page 14 Introduction by Robert Lathe & Nancy Whittaker......Page 24 A Note from the Waldorf School Faculty......Page 28 Opening Address......Page 30 Lecture 1 - August 21, 1919......Page 34 Notes of three participants......Page 46 Lecture 2 - August 22......Page 50 Lecture 3 - August 23......Page 64 Lecture 4 - August 25......Page 80 Lecture 5 - August 26......Page 95 Lecture 6 - August 27......Page 107 Lecture 7 - August 28......Page 121 Lecture 8 - August 29......Page 135 Lecture 9 - August 30......Page 148 Lecture 10 - September 1......Page 160 Lecture 11 - September 2......Page 173 Lecture 12 - September 3......Page 184 Lecture 13 - September 4......Page 195 Lecture 14 - September 5......Page 205 Notes......Page 214 Acknowledgments......Page 242 Foreword by Henry Barnes......Page 244 The Human Soul and the Human Body......Page 247 The Riddles of the Soul and Riddles of the Universe......Page 282 Bibliography......Page 318 Index......Page 326 Foundations of Waldor Education THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE 1 Contents 6 Foreword by Henry Barnes 14 Introduction by Robert Lathe & Nancy Whittaker 24 A Note from the Waldorf School Faculty 28 Opening Address 30 Lecture 1 - August 21, 1919 34 Notes of three participants 46 Lecture 2 - August 22 50 Lecture 3 - August 23 64 Lecture 4 - August 25 80 Lecture 5 - August 26 95 Lecture 6 - August 27 107 Lecture 7 - August 28 121 Lecture 8 - August 29 135 Lecture 9 - August 30 148 Lecture 10 - September 1 160 Lecture 11 - September 2 173 Lecture 12 - September 3 184 Lecture 13 - September 4 195 Lecture 14 - September 5 205 Notes 214 Acknowledgments 242 Appendix 244 Foreword by Henry Barnes 244 The Human Soul and the Human Body 247 The Riddles of the Soul and Riddles of the Universe 282 Bibliography 318 Index 326 Anthroposophic,Press