Living Thinking
Under the best of conditions, adolescence is a time when an individual begins to claim his or her independence and when ideals of a new generation begin to germinate. No longer willing simply to accept anything purely on authority, the adolescent of today longs to know truth and yearns to be understood. As teachers, we have the two-fold task of supporting this process, yet accomplishing it in such a way that the student relies primarily upon his or her own inner strengths.
The development of living thinking assists the teacher in this task. It helps us to meet the needs of the students and developing the content of the curriculum within an appropriate context. By studying Rudolf Steiner’s Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and putting it into practice, we can model the qualities we aim to inspire in adolescents in that we become more conscious of how to help each human being, including ourselves, live more deeply into the world.
