A hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner observed that humanity’s greatest challenge in the coming age would be learning to allow the heart to teach us to think in a new way. While the mind tends to observe from a safe, analytical distance, the heart seeks a deeper relationship with the world. The heart learns through…
The anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that education would never truly succeed unless it was grounded in art. She wasn’t talking about making kids draw pictures all day (although, wouldn’t that be fun?)—she meant that all subjects should be taught with the spirit of imagination, exploration, and play. And then there’s Johann Goethe, the poet…
My brother-in-law is a huge fan of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Fun fact: I recently discovered that the proper German pronunciation of his name is “Goo-t’h.” Don’t worry if you’ve been saying it differently—apparently, people struggled with it even in his own time! Whenever I visit my sister’s house, I seem to stumble upon another…
In the process of writing up some new course proposals, I discovered some old writing I’d never sent out. The ideas are still present for me, so I offer them to you. I think we can all feel it: the rumblings of change are happening all around us. Of course, change is part of life,…
Mozart once said, “Love, love, love—that is the soul of genius.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe echoed this sentiment, claiming, “People cannot learn what they do not love.” Yet, in today’s intellectualized society, where the power of the word often trumps the wisdom of the heart, passion and emotion are rarely given their due. Having feelings—or…
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