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Erasmus Spitta,

A very important task

In a recent discussion with a friend, we agreed that our thinking, feeling, and willing in modern society have, on the whole, become too inflexible, too rigid, and too one-sided, and that this gives rise to a fundamental and very significant task for…
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Stephanie Sell,

Unity Around the Fire

I’ve just returned from a five-day canoe trip on the Altmühl. It’s a field trip that every seventh-grade class at our school takes. Five days living in harmony with nature. Waking up with the sun, going to sleep under the stars. In between, setting…
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Hans Hutzel,

Getting Ready for Transformation

The people of ancient Rome distinguished between Gallia Cis-Alpina and Trans-Alpina: the familiar Italian heartland here—with its fortified roads and well-trodden, comfortable paths that made travel predictable—and the land beyond the Alps there. In…
Nele Auschra,

Who Are You?

Right now, I could easily lose hope in humanity. People really make it hard for you. How wonderful it would be if I could continue to believe in the good in them, and see them growing and improving.
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Stephanie Sell,

Teachers and Students Prompt Together!

We have four minutes to use a small, random, and extremely colorful assortment of LEGO bricks to design our own vision of a future world shaped by AI. Afterward, we decide whether our vision is positive or negative and place our creations on two…
Nele Auschra,

Here's to Fallibility

How can I correct my mistakes and learn from them? It starts with admitting to myself that I make mistakes. That's not always easy, but it's always helpful: as a child, it was a prerequisite for learning spelling, knitting, and social skills, and to…
Stefan Grosse,

Machines do not Feel the Need to do Good

I recently read an interview in the magazine «Der Spiegel» with Daniel Kokotajlo, an IT specialist who left OpenAI. In it, he develops a scenario in which an independently acting AI, far superior to humans in intelligence and skills, destroys…
Susanne Piwecki,

The Beauty of Diversity

Our society is becoming increasingly diverse, multifaceted, and intercultural – even though political forces are currently trying to counteract this. In times when global powers dare to abolish diversity, it is all the more important to use the…
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Stephanie Sell,

Participation for Students!

In recent years, youths have had an interesting experience as part of Fridays for Future: they are seen and heard when they hit the streets and, when they are not stuck on the streets, they even receive encouragement from the public. Nobody expects…
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Hans Hutzel,

Creating Meaning as Goal of Education

How can a school movement in the independent school system prevent pupils from developing right-wing extremist positions?
Eva Wörner,

The patriarchy also rules in the Waldorf system

A greater number of female chief executives, more female regional representatives, and for a long time now there have been predominantly female teachers standing in front of the class in years one to eight. Even on the board of the German Association…
Stefan Grosse,

We need trained thinking!

It has always bothered me when people in Waldorf circles have belittled the intellectual and academic. I am convinced that we will need one mental characteristic more than others in the future, namely a trained thinking that is capable of clear and…
Wilfried Bialik,

Yes to an open society

Dear Readers, it is not easy to formulate a position that describes the current situation in Waldorf and Rudolf Steiner schools in Germany.
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Hans Hutzel,

Pulling the plug or the duty to be lazy

Are you also familiar with these mostly male colleagues who, when asked for a meeting, begin by emphasising how important they think the request is, but unfortunately do not have a date free in the near future and, moreover, their weekends are also…