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According to one member of his audience, \"Seventeen hundred people listened to him; the prolonged applause from this great crowd at the end of every lecture was deeply moving, while at the end of the last lecture the applause became an ovation that seemed as if it would never end.\" This kind of adoration was the result not only of who Steiner was as an individual but of what he accomplished as well. People had already begun to realize the potential and the promise for the future that Waldorf education held out to the children of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Essentials of Education\u003c\/i\u003e, together with its companion book, \u003cb\u003eThe Roots of Education, \u003c\/b\u003e present a remarkable synthesis of what Waldorf education is and what it can become. The Waldorf \"experiment\" had matured for five years since 1919, when Steiner helped to establish the first Waldorf school. He had guided that school from its beginning, observing very closely all that happened. As a result, he was able to distill and present the essentials of Waldorf education with elegance as well as with the urgency he felt for the coming times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003eDie Methodik des Lehrens und die Lebensbedingungen des Erziehens\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 308).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628041937169,"sku":"GOR003518101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731175547153,"sku":"NGR9780880104128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50265954844945,"sku":"CIN0880104120A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009165754641,"sku":"NIN9780880104128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51421496770833,"sku":"CIN0880104120G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51614412177681,"sku":"CIN0880104120VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52137303802129,"sku":"NLS9780880104128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880104120.jpg?v=1751171108"},{"product_id":"kingdom-of-childhood-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880104029","title":"The Kingdom of Childhood","description":"These seven intimate, aphoristic talks were presented to a small group on Steiner's final visit to England. Because they were given to \"pioneers\" dedicated to opening a new Waldorf school, these talks are often considered one of the best introductions to Waldorf education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Steiner shows the necessity for teachers to work on themselves first, in order to transform their own inherent gifts. He explains the need to use humor to keep their teaching lively and imaginative. Above all, he stresses the tremendous importance of doing everything in the knowledge that children are citizens of both the spiritual and the earthly worlds. And, throughout these lectures, he continually returns to the practical value of Waldorf education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These talks are filled with practical illustrations and revolve around certain themes--the need for observation in teachers; the dangers of stressing the intellect too early; children's need for teaching that is concrete and pictorial; the education of children's souls through wonder and reverence; the importance of first presenting the \"whole,\" then the parts, to the children's imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here is one of the best introductions to Waldorf education, straight from the man who started it all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e German source: \u003ci\u003eDie Kunst des Erziehens aus dem Erfassen der Menschenwesenhiet\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 311). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSYNOPSIS OF THE LECTURES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eLECTURE 1: \u003c\/b\u003e The need for a new art of education. The whole of life must be considered. Process of incarnation as a stupendous task of the spirit. Fundamental changes at seven and fourteen. At seven, the forming of the \"new body\" out of the \"model body\" inherited at birth. After birth, the bodily milk as sole nourishment. The teacher's task to give \"soul milk\" at the change of teeth and \"spiritual milk\" at puberty. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eLECTURE 2: \u003c\/b\u003e In first epoch of life child is wholly sense organ. Nature of child's environment and conduct of surrounding adults of paramount importance. Detailed observation of children and its significance. In second epoch, seven to fourteen, fantasy and imagination as life blood of all education, e.g., in teaching of writing and reading, based on free creative activity of each teacher. The child as integral part of the environment until nine. Teaching about nature must be based on this. The \"higher truths\" in fairy tales and myths. How the teacher can guide the child through the critical moment of the ninth year. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eLECTURE 3: \u003c\/b\u003e How to teach about plants and animals (seven to fourteen). Plants must always be considered, not as specimens, but growing in the soil. The plant belongs to the earth. This is the true picture and gives the child an inward joy. Animals must be spoken of always in connection with humans. All animal qualities and physical characteristics are to be found, in some form, in the human being. Humans as synthesis of the whole animal kingdom. Minerals should not be introduced until twelfth year. History should first be presented in living, imaginative pictures, through legends, myths, and stories. Only at eleven or twelve should any teaching be based on cause and effect, which is foreign to the young child's nature. Some thoughts on punishment, with examples. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eLECTURE 4: \u003c\/b\u003e Development of imaginative qualities in the teacher. The story of the violet and the blue sky. Children's questions. Discipline dependent on the right mood of soul. The teacher's own preparation for this. Seating of children according to temperament. Retelling of stories. Importance of imaginative stories that can be recalled in later school life. Drawing of diagrams, from ninth year. Completion and metamorphosis of simple figures, to give children feeling of form and symmetry. Concentration exercises to awaken an active thinking as basis of wisdom for later life. Simple color exercises. A Waldorf school timetable. 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How does a teacher connect geography and art and language in a way that enlivens the souls of children? What does a child's respect for the teacher mean for later life? These are only a few practical aspects of this initial course for Waldorf teachers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring an intensive two weeks, Rudolf Steiner gave three simultaneous educational courses to those who would be the first teachers of the original Waldorf school. One course provided the foundational ideas behind Waldorf education (\u003ci\u003eThe Foundations of Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e); another provided a forum for questions and lively discussions on specific issues in the classroom (\u003ci\u003eDiscussions with Teachers\u003c\/i\u003e). In this course, Steiner takes the middle-path by integrating theory and practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, Steiner spoke of new ways to teach reading, writing, geography, geometry, language, and much more. His approach is tailored to the spiritual and physical needs of the children themselves, not to an arbitrary curriculum based solely on external results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when public education is in a state of crisis, this book describes how children around the world are being guided into adulthood with a fuller sense of themselves and with a creative approach to life and the world around them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003eErziehungskunst. 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At the last minute, he was asked to give an additional course on language, which he improvised. \"The Genius of Language\" is the result. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Steiner demonstrates how history and psychology together form the different languages and how ideas, images, and vocabulary travel through time within various cultural streams. He describes how the power to form language has declined, but that we can still recover the seed of language, the penetration of sound by meaning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He also explains how consonants imitate outer phenomena, whereas vowels convey a more inner sense of events; he talks about the differentiation of language as it is influenced by geography; he speaks of the \"folk soul\" element and the possibility of \"wordless thinking\"; we hear about the capacity of language to transform us and of its importance to our spiritual lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is not just a course on language for those who love words but demonstrates ways to teach children. This little book will prove tremendously valuable to both educators and parents-in fact, to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of language and its significance for our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e German source: \u003ci\u003eGeisteswissenschaftlische Sprachbetrachtungen\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 299).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729458536721,"sku":"NGR9780880103862","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50503880147217,"sku":"GOR005779095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008991265041,"sku":"NIN9780880103862","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694914994449,"sku":"CIN0880103868G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52123931869457,"sku":"NLS9780880103862","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880103868.jpg?v=1750883489"},{"product_id":"roots-of-education-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880104159","title":"The Roots of Education","description":"5 lectures, Bern, April 13-17, 1924 (CW 309) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese lectures on Waldorf education were given as a course during Easter week, 1924, in Bern. Although these talks were given more than eighty years ago, they remain remarkably contemporary. Every word still resonates with passion and dedication to the human adventure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We must develop an art of education that can lead us out of the social chaos into which we have fallen during the last few years and decades.... There is no escaping this chaos unless we can find a way to bring spirituality into human souls through education, so that human beings may find a way to progress and to further the evolution of civilization out of the spirit itself.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the time of these lectures, Steiner had only eleven months left to live in this world. The first Waldorf school had been established five years earlier, and the intervening period witnessed Steiner's tireless activity in every area of that school's life. Now it was, in a sense, time to bring the ripe fruit of this work to the public. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether with its companion course \u003cb\u003eThe Essentials of Education, \u003c\/b\u003e presented three days earlier, this book provides a stimulating synthesis of the Waldorf approach to education. Teachers, parents, and anyone interested in education will discover the fundamental characteristics of a new art of education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lectures: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Lecture 1: A new education requires a new knowledge of the whole human being in body, soul, and spirit. The change of teeth signals the end of the first stage of childhood. Soul and spirit descend into a body provided by inheritance, which is used as the model for the \"second\" human being. During the first stage the child is a sense organ that perceives moral influences. The influence of the teacher's temperament. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lecture 2: The goal of Waldorf education is to reveal new methods of teaching. The power of spiritual perception for understanding children and adults. Sleeping and waking. The seasons reflected in the human being. Thinking as an etheric \"grasping.\" Materialistic ideas and insomnia. Psychic influences and physical effects. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lecture 3. Memory before and after the change of teeth. The physical and etheric bodies. The etheric body and sculpting. The astral body and music. The I-being and speech. The musical scale and the human body. The teacher as therapist. Doctors and the school. Teaching letters. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lecture 4. The sense organization and moral development at the change of teeth. Mathematics begins with the whole. The child's natural religious impulse. The need for images after seven. The need to feel a connection with destiny after fourteen. The child's relationship with the world. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lecture 5. The three divisions of the middle stage of childhood. Nature and history. Children after puberty go into life. The experience of immortality. Punishment. Reading the child. The need for a living experience of one another today. Moon and Sun forces in the plant world. Spiritual science reveals the unity of the human being with the world. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese lectures are contained in the German \u003ci\u003eAnthroposophische P dagogik und ihre Voraussetzungen\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 309), published by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729703543057,"sku":"NGR9780880104159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49931045503249,"sku":"CIN0880104155G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009288339729,"sku":"NIN9780880104159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51566461452561,"sku":"CIN0880104155VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52150290809105,"sku":"NLS9780880104159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880104155.jpg?v=1751139766"},{"product_id":"soul-economy-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880105170","title":"Soul Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003e16 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 23, 1921-Jan. 5, 1922 (CW 303)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday's schools fill children's heads with information instead of helping them develop their natural human faculties and capacities. They place too much stress on memory, leading to inner exhaustion instead of real learning for a healthy, fulfilling life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe important lectures in this volume were given in Dornach, Switzerland, to leading educators, including many from England. As a result, he was invited to Oxford to expand on some ot the themes presented in these talks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteiner begins by placing Anthroposophy as the foundation for understanding the principles behind Waldorf education. In what follows, he describes an education based on the human as a continually developing being of body, soul, and spirit. From this perspective, Waldorf education depends on the teacher's ability to observe and respond to each stage of a child's development. Steiner shows how Waldorf education emphasizes the efficient use of children's inner energies and how children can be nurtured through their natural stages of development by giving them just what they need at the right time--an approach that Steiner calls \"soul economy.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe topics include: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e* Health and illness\u003cbr\u003e* Child development from before seven years through adolescence \u003cbr\u003e* Physical education \u003cbr\u003e* Aesthetic education \u003cbr\u003e* Religious and moral education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese detailed and accessible lectures give parents and teachers the keys to a much-needed renewal of education for our children and their future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003eErziehung und Unterricht aus Menschenwesens. Eine Einf hrung in die anthroposophische P dagogik und Didaktik. 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This is the context of these lectures, among Steiner's most accessible on education. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA teacher who attended the lectures wrote in the \u003ci\u003eBerne School Paper\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery morning, as we listened anew to Dr. Steiner, we felt we had come closer to him and understood better what he had to say and how he had to say it. Daily, we newcomers gathered, asking ourselves, \"Why are more of our colleagues not here? It is untrue that anthroposophy limits a person, develops blinkers, or avoids real life.... For, step-by-step, Dr. Steiner shows its application to life ... illuminating the details, disclosing their connection with profound questions of life and existence.\" I came to the conference to stimulate my school work. I found benefit in abundance. 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A high school was needed, and Steiner wanted to provide a foundation for study and a guide for teachers already familiar with his approach to the human being, child development, and education based on spiritual science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteiner's education affirms the being of every child within the world of spirit. 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Acknowledging that modern physicists had come to regard Goethe's ideas on physics as a \"kind of nonsense,\" Steiner contrasts the traditional scientific approach, which treats phenomena as evidence of \"natural laws,\" with Goethean science, which rejects the idea of an abstract law behind natural phenomena and instead seeks to be a \"rational description of nature.\" Steiner then corrects the mechanistic reductionism practiced by scientific positivists, emphasizing instead the validity of human experience and pointing toward a revolution in scientific paradigms that would reclaim ground for the subject--the human being--in the study of nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eREAD BOBBY MATHERNE'S REVIEW OF THIS BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGerman source: \u003ci\u003eGeisteswissenschaftliche impulse zur Entwikkelung der Physik, Erster Naturwissenschaftlicher Kurs: Licht, Farbe, Ton-Masse, Elektrizit t, Magnetismus\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 320).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49732142956817,"sku":"NGR9780880104999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50098402754833,"sku":"CIN0880104996A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50353137418513,"sku":"GOR006493107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371224928529,"sku":"CIN0880104996G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009242693905,"sku":"NIN9780880104999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52131786031377,"sku":"NLS9780880104999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880104996.jpg?v=1751108664"},{"product_id":"renewal-of-education-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880104555","title":"The Renewal of Education","description":"14 lectures, Basel, April 20-May 16, 1920 (CW 301) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing a lecture of November 27, 1919 requested by the Basel Department of Education, sixty members of the audience invited Rudolf Steiner to return and deliver a complete lecture course on his approach to education. 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In its place stood ruins and the shards of a civilization. In response to this, Emil Molt--the director of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory and a student of Rudolf Steiner--decided to establish a school to educate people who could create a new culture. Thus, the Waldorf school movement was begun. Rudolf Steiner agreed to act as the school's consultant, and his insights guided the school in accomplishing this ambitious task. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe goal of this education was that, through living inner work guided by the insights of Rudolf Steiner, the teachers would develop in the children such power of thought, depth of feeling, and strength of will that they would emerge from their school years as full members of the human community, able to meet and transform the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese lectures occurred around the opening of the first Waldorf school. They serve as an excellent, inspiring introduction to Waldorf education as a whole. Here Steiner outlines--with freshness, immediacy, and excitement--the goals and intentions of a new form of education and speaks to parents of prospective students. He explains the school's guiding principles and describes how parents must participate, with understanding and interest, in the awakening of their children's creative forces so that a healthier society can come about. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Introduction by Robert Lathe and Nancy Whittaker \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Intent of the Waldorf School \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Spirit of the Waldorf School \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Lecture for Prospective Parents \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Supersensible Knowledge and Social Pedagogical Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Social Pedagogical Significance of Spiritual Science \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Spiritual Science and Pedagogy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Pedagogical Objective of the Waldorf School in Stuttgart\u003cbr\u003eAn essay by Rudolf Steiner from the Journal \u003ci\u003eThe Social Future\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGerman sources: \u003ci\u003eDie Waldorfschule und ihr Geist\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 297); \"Die p dagogische Zielsetzung der Waldorfschule in Stuttgart,\" from \u003ci\u003eSoziale Zukunft, \u003c\/i\u003e Feb. 1920 (GA 24).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49758777245969,"sku":"GOR004959063","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49925941330193,"sku":"GOR013815827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50828812124433,"sku":"CIN0880103949G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50954445226257,"sku":"CIN0880103949VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327169167633,"sku":"CIN0880103949A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0880103949.jpg?v=1751139765"},{"product_id":"waldorf-education-and-anthroposophy-book-rudolf-steiner-9780880103879","title":"Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy","description":"\u003cb\u003e9 lectures, various cities, February 23, 1921-September 16, 1922 (CW 304)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the first of two previously untranslated volumes of Steiner's public lectures on Waldorf education. Readers familiar with Steiner's lectures for teachers will discover here how Steiner presented his ideas to the general public with surprising directness. Teaching, Steiner says, should be artistic, creative, and improvisational, not dogmatic. Yet he is clear that the great battle concerns the spiritual nature of the child. Other themes include understanding the role of health and illness in education, as well as repeated expositions of the three major phases in child development: imitation, authority, and freedom. 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At 9:00 a.m. each day, he gave the course now translated as \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Human Experience;\u003c\/i\u003e at 11:00 a.m., \u003ci\u003ePractical Advice to Teachers;\u003c\/i\u003e and then, after lunch, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., he held the informal \"discussions\" published in this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tone is spontaneous and relaxed. Steiner does not prescribe specific methods but introduces topics and situations, offering guidelines and allocating practical assignments that are taken up and discussed in the next session. The discussions are filled with insights and suggestions in many different areas of teaching--history, geography, botany, zoology, form drawing, mathematics, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeech exercises are included. 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