
CW 307 Modern Art of Education: Lecture 8: Reading, Writing, Nature Study (August 13, 1923) by Rudolf Steiner
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Plants and the Earth as a Unity
We cannot stimulate living ideas in children by giving them so called science, dead knowledge that frequently teaches us nothing at all. We can stimulate real development through a study of plants and their intimate connection with the earth. Children should feel the life of the earth and plant as a unity. The animal world as a whole should be related to human kind. And this alone serves as true development.
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