
CW 307 Modern Art of Education: Lecture 4: Spirit’s Relationship to the Body (August 8, 1923) by Rudolf Steiner
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The Relationship Between Spirit and Human Teeth
We must learn to see people in spirit, as the greeks saw people in the body. We know that our teeth serve a useful purpose when eating or speaking. A truly spiritual understanding of the human being shows us something else as well. As strange as it sounds, a child develops teeth for the purpose of thinking. Modern science is unaware that our teeth are the most important of all our organs of thought. Children, through their interaction with the environment, spontaneously find their way into thinking. It follows that much depends on how we return spirit, which we grasp only in an intellectual way, to the human being. So let this vague spirit with which we observe people will become human.
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