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Steiner's belief that some children are demons (was Striving after truth)
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Margaret Sachs
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Jul 19, 2005 12:49 PDT
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My first post to WaldorfQuest was returned to me as
undeliverable so here it is again.
--- baandje <ban-@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
<snip>
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is mostly an issue of some very unintelligent and
insensitive people,
who are allowed to stumble about unsupervised in the
private confines of
some Waldorf classroom. They’re not bad people in
the sense of injuring
others with intention. They simply have no idea what
it is they’re
actually doing. And yes, the philosophy has a great
deal to do with
that. But the philosophy itself is not really the
reason for this
behavior. It’s the unenlightened individual that’s
casing the problems
and, in some very real cases, doing the damage.
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Baandje, I agree with your assessment above except
that possibly I attribute more responsibility for it
to Anthroposophy than you do. I believe it's
Steiner's teachings about a hierarchichal spiritual
system that create the environment for the problems.
For example, LK appears to have been a learning
disabled or mentally handicapped child. Steiner
taught that people like her are demons in human form.
Therefore you have the potential for Anthroposophists
to decide that someone's child is a demon rather than
a real human being (a scary prospect for the parents
of any child with learning problems). I don't believe
that once they have made that judgment the wellbeing
of that child is going to be their primary concern. A
Waldorf teacher who makes such a judgment probably is
unintelligent and insensitive, but their judgment
didn't evolve out of their own imagination but rather
out of Steiner's Anthroposophical teaching.
Margaret
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