
CW 307 Modern Art of Education: Lecture 8: Reading, Writing, Nature Study (August 13, 1923) by Rudolf Steiner
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Teaching Botany to Children in the First Year of School
We can return to human beings once we have clearly described the animal world as a human being who has exaggerated individual organ systems. This should be done when children approach the twelfth year, for they can then naturally understand that because we carry spirit within us as human beings,. We are an artistic synthesis of our separate parts, otherwise reflected in the various animal species. The goal of our educational work therefore is not merely to provide information about the plants and animals, but to develop character. In other words, children's whole human nature.
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