Education and Teaching as Preventative Medicine

Education and Teaching as Preventative Medicine

Part of the Persephone series of books published by the Medical Section of the Goetheanum, Education and Teaching as Preventative Medicine is a collection of Rudolf Steiner’s therapeutic indications for working with children.

Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Quotes on:

1. Observation of the Physical Body and Movement
2. Dexterity
3. Writing with the Feet
4. Body Geography
5. Supplementary Exercises
6. Memory
7. Learning to Read and to Write
8. Arithmetic
9. Moral Education
10. Constitutions
11. Various:
    * Concentration
    * Sleeping
    * Medical and Nutritional Indications
    * Anaemia
    * Problem Children
    * Change in Tempo
    * Others
    * Pedagogical Law
12. Curative Eurythmy and Eurythmy Indications, mainly from the Faculty Meetings
13. Sources

About the Author

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.