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Ausgabe 12/25

Values that Connect

People have apparently always been prone to lying, cheating, abusing power, and violence. That is why, around 3,000 years ago, Moses had to establish rules that everyone should follow. Buddhism also has ten basic rules, and Islam has five. Despite all the differences between religions, they have in common that they give people meaning and support through the existence of a transcendent power and show ideals of how people should live.

 

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Growing Older Happens Incidentally

On the one hand, it is conventional wisdom: panta rhei. Everything flows, everything is in motion. On the other hand, we are always amazed when change…
On the one hand, it is conventional wisdom: panta rhei. Everything flows, everything is in motion. On the other hand, we are always amazed when change occurs, when something is no longer as it used to be, when shoes become too small or we do not…
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Struggling for Democracy

As is often the case with abstract concepts, there is no single definition. For me, democracy means, among other things, voting according to the…
As is often the case with abstract concepts, there is no single definition. For me, democracy means, among other things, voting according to the majority principle only after a long process of debate. It also means that although majorities decide,…
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How We Eat

The longer our children have been out of the house, the more we are experiencing a drastic decline in culture at home—at least when it comes to food.…
The longer our children have been out of the house, the more we are experiencing a drastic decline in culture at home—at least when it comes to food. In the past, when the children still lived at home, there were many rules.
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STEM: When the brain tingles ...

Do you know that feeling when your brain tingles? When we perceive something and desperately want to know why? This urge to explore new things and…
Do you know that feeling when your brain tingles? When we perceive something and desperately want to know why? This urge to explore new things and find solutions to problems is epistemic curiosity.
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Hee Haw, Woof Woof, Cock-a-Doodle-doo

Humans are biophilic beings – that is, we are designed in such a way that we want to form bonds with all other living beings, or rather, that we…
Humans are biophilic beings – that is, we are designed in such a way that we want to form bonds with all other living beings, or rather, that we cannot do otherwise. The fact that we give animals names or bury them in graves with tombstones is not an…
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In a World Where you yan be Anything, be Loving

What does love have to do with Waldorf education? When one of my children transferred from a state school to a Waldorf school and her school…
What does love have to do with Waldorf education? When one of my children transferred from a state school to a Waldorf school and her school experience there was completely different from before, I had the impression that teachers at the Waldorf…
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Waldorf Extends the day for Children

For me, it is part of the fairness of men's and women's biographies that there are all-day schools. Compared to other countries in the European Union,…
For me, it is part of the fairness of men's and women's biographies that there are all-day schools. Compared to other countries in the European Union, the part-part time work rate of mothers with children of primary school age is particularly high in…
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Forms in the classroom

If parents did not attend a Waldorf school themselves as children, they will discover a number of unknown things in their children's everyday school…
If parents did not attend a Waldorf school themselves as children, they will discover a number of unknown things in their children's everyday school life. A subject called form drawing!
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Time for New Order and Re-evaluation

History is a science, but it is not as exact a science as mathematics, for example. How we deal with the past can only be based on the present and is…
History is a science, but it is not as exact a science as mathematics, for example. How we deal with the past can only be based on the present and is therefore subject to changing perspectives and evaluations.
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Adoration and Contempt

His supporters considered him to be «the most comprehensive spirit of our time», a «thinker of the greatest brilliance»”, a «man of unlimited impact»…
His supporters considered him to be «the most comprehensive spirit of our time», a «thinker of the greatest brilliance»”, a «man of unlimited impact» and lamented the «disgusting maliciousness» of the opponents of anthroposophy.
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