The spiritual and scientific foundations of pedagogy. Steiner R.

In the lecture cycle, Rudolf Steiner applies the knowledge obtained by spiritual and scientific by pedagogical tasks, to the problems of education and human formation. The knowledge of this kind of subtle processes accompanying human growing up is not available either by modern medicine, nor natural scientific research, and these processes themselves have a radical effect on memory, thinking and even on the formation of moral principles of a person. The author gives practical recommendations on how to best present educational material, in what sequence and when exactly. Rudolph Steiner explains how the authority of the teacher, his personal qualities and the approach to learning affect the development of the child’s abilities and how an uncontrolled temperament of the teacher can lead to one or another disease in a later period of the student’s life. The question of the influence of various directions of art on the development of the mental qualities of the child and the formation of a harmonious perception of the real world is also addressed.