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CW 307 Modern Art of Education: Lecture 3: Greek Education and the Middle Ages (August 7, 1923) by Rudolf Steiner

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The Greeks Believed in the Seventh Year of Life

The greeks considered it important to recognize in children, up to the seventh year, that the physical body holds a spirit being who has descended. The modern rational and intellectual age takes pride in showing that it places no value on such a truth. We may say that this departure from such eternal principles of human evolution is typical of the prevailing chaos in our system of education.

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