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Ausgabe 06/26

Why Men Shouldn't Park

Ever since I’ve been with my husband, we’ve had conflicts in the car. I get the impression that as soon as he gets behind the wheel, he turns into a roaring bear that’s just been stung by a bee. If another car gets too close to ours, he reacts as if someone had rammed a shopping cart into his knees at the supermarket. In traffic jams, he can’t take a deep breath and accept life with its unexpected twists and turns; instead, he lurches forward like a grasshopper toward the car in front of us as soon as there’s two meters of space again.

 

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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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Darkness needs Mindfulness

I still remember vividly lying in bed for an entire night as a child, sad and sleepless, thinking all the time that my parents would die one day. I…
I still remember vividly lying in bed for an entire night as a child, sad and sleepless, thinking all the time that my parents would die one day. I was nine years old.
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Dealing with an intangible mystery

We dedicate this Erziehungskunst to the phenomenon of time. At least since Antiquity, people have been urging each other to use their time properly –…
We dedicate this Erziehungskunst to the phenomenon of time. At least since Antiquity, people have been urging each other to use their time properly – but presumably for much longer.
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Touching Souls and Resolving Conflicts

«I confess that I need stories to understand the world», this is a quote from the writer Siegfried Lenz. Do you remember stories that explained the…
«I confess that I need stories to understand the world», this is a quote from the writer Siegfried Lenz. Do you remember stories that explained the world to you?
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Hands-on Learning

In the Kant anniversary year – but not only then – it is nice to remind ourselves of the questions from which Immanuel Kant developed his philosophy:…
In the Kant anniversary year – but not only then – it is nice to remind ourselves of the questions from which Immanuel Kant developed his philosophy: «What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope for? What is man?» The questions remain…
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Connection of School and Farming

For several years, our family was part of a car pool for Demeter milk. Once a month, we drove to the Birkmeier farm in Pöttmes by car, tapped 40 to 50…
For several years, our family was part of a car pool for Demeter milk. Once a month, we drove to the Birkmeier farm in Pöttmes by car, tapped 40 to 50 liters of milk there and brought the healthy cargo to the Waldorf school, where the other families…
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