It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.
Rudolf SteinerRead
The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A teacher's mindset and life experiences significantly influence their effectiveness in fostering student development.
This quote emphasizes that the effectiveness of teaching is largely determined by the thoughts and experiences a teacher accumulates throughout their life. A teacher who values personal and human development brings a deeper understanding and care into the classroom, resulting in a more profound impact on their students compared to those who do not reflect on such matters.
Themes
TeachingTeacher EffectivenessEducationHuman DevelopmentInfluence
In practice
Example use cases
In a teacher training seminar to highlight the importance of teacher mindfulness.
More from Rudolf Steiner
All quotes →In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.
Rudolf SteinerRead
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
Rudolf SteinerRead
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
Rudolf SteinerRead
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Rudolf SteinerRead
We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.
Rudolf SteinerRead
Similar quotes
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
Oliver TamboRead
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.
Norman DoidgeRead
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
Benjamin RushRead
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis BaconRead
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
Jane SmileyRead
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron LyttonRead