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RE: Steiner's belief that some children are demons (was Striving after
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Pete Karaiskos
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Jul 19, 2005 19:03 PDT
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Margaret Sachs wrote:
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My first post to WaldorfQuest was returned to me as
undeliverable so here it is again.
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Thanks Margaret!
| | 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).
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That is scarier than... um... assuming they're ALL demons (like I do -
OK, just kidding). But it isn't only the children with learning
problems that may be demons, it might be children with behavioral
problems, or attitude problems - sometimes it's children whose parents
are problematic. And, apparently, children can apparently switch back
and forth from human to non-human or child to demon. Otherwise, why
wouldn't they just have some high-level Anthroposophist on the
enrollment committee checking the children as they enroll? Certainly
they can separate out the demon children from the non-demons right from
the start. That way the rest of our children don't have to go to school
with the demon children. Um... or is it a tuition thing?
| | 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.
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The *right* to judge evolved out of Steiner's teaching. The *need* to
judge and the *willingness* to judge and even the *criteria* for judging
is something that must be laid at the feet of the teachers themselves.
No?
Pete
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