Teaching woodworking grades five to eight in a Waldorf school by Atta Turck

Posted Dec 1st 2011 in Anthroposophy, Curriculum, Education, Social Renewal | Add a comment

Seek the truly practical material life, but seek it in such a way that it does not numb you to the spirit active within it.   Seek the spirit, But do not seek it in supersensible lust, Out of supersensible egotism, But seek it, Because you want to apply it selflessly in practical life, in the material world.   Apply the old rule: “Spirit never is without matter, matter never without spirit!” in such a way, that you say: We want to do everything material in the light of the spirit, And we want to seek the light of the spirit in that way that it will develop warmth for our practical deeds.    The spirit, which is led by us into the material, The material, which is molded by us until it reveals itself, whereby it drives out the spirit from within; The material which receives from us revealed …
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