Practical Steiner is a new podcast addressing the question “What might Steiner say?” about this or that topic that is of interest to me, the host. I am a fairly new Steiner student and have felt in these past two years that finally, after years and years of wondering about the “why” of many things, I have finally come across someone with comprehensive knowledge enough to answer many of those questions.
My podcast is conversations - the more candid and honest the better - with various people who have been studying at least as long as I have and who have taken up Anthroposophy as a way of living. My over-arching interest is not in presenting “expert” opinion/interpretation of Steiner’s body of work but rather lies at the interface of the guidance from Steiner’s books and lectures with how someone lives their everyday life.
As with E1, this episode also is on the topic of early childhood Waldorf Education, with more emphasis on Steiner’s understandings of the human being’s development from birth to seven years old. Nancy and I talk about her experiences, covering various topics including:
how she came to be a Waldorf teacher;
how this word “living” applies to Waldorf Education;
what is RS’s understanding of the human being 0-7 years;
elaboration on “etheric” - the child looks physically formed but is not;
working with adult prisoners;
training for teachers and meaning of “Spiritual Science”;
meaning of “sense-free” thinking;
Kant and limits to knowledge.
READINGS MENTIONED: Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy, Philosophy of Freedom, Truth and Science, Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe’s World View
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