The Roots of Education: Lecture 5 of 5: Lecture delivered in Bern, Switzerland on April 17, 1924; from The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

This lecture is part of the collection "The Roots of Education" by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy. He is considered the father of Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine and spiritual science. The three divisions of the middle stage of childhood. Nature and history. Children after puberty go into life. The experience of immortality. Punishment. Reading the child. The need for a living experience of one another today. Moon and Sun forces in the plant world. Spiritual science reveals the unity of the human being with the world. The entire Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner are available from SteinerBooks.