The Education of Children from the Standpoint of Theosophy

FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THEOSOPHY
BY RUDOLF STEINER PH. D. (VIENNA)
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION FROM THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION
AMERICAN EDITION
THE RAJPUT PRESS.
CHICAGO. 1911
COPYRIGHT 1911, BY WELLER VAN HOOK, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN VIEW OF THE MANY UNAUTHORIZED TRANSLATIONS OF DR. RUDOLF STEINER’S WORKS, THE PUBLISHER BEGS TO GIVE NOTICE THAT ALL AUTHORISED EDITIONS, ISSUED UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF MR. MAX GYSI, BEAR THE SYMBOL OVERLEAF (CROSS IN PENTAGRAM).
MAX GYSI, Editor, “Adyar,” Park Drive, Hampstead, London, N. W.
(TRANSLATED BY W. B.)
Present day life calls into question many things which man has inherited from his ancestors hence the numberless questions of the day, as for example: the Social Problem, the Woman’s Movement, Education and School Questions, Law Reform, Hygiene, Sanitation, and so forth. We try to grapple with these questions in manifold ways. The number of those who bring forward this or that remedy in order to solve this or that question, or at least to contribute something towards its solution, is immeasurably great, and every possible shade of opinion is manifested in these endeavors; radicalism, carrying itself with a revolutionary air; the moderate view, full of respect for existing things and desirous of fashioning out of them something new; or conservatism, up in arms, whenever old institutions and traditions are tampered with; and besides these main attitudes, there are all sorts of intermediary points of view.
He who is able to probe deeply into life cannot help feeling one thing with regard to these phenomena—that the claims which are placed before men in our time are met repeatedly by inadequate means. Many would like to re-form life, without really knowing it from its foundations. He who would put forth a proposition as to life in the future, must not content himself with merely learning to know life superficially. He must probe it to its depths.