Rudolf Steiner

I have been much too arrogant in regarding the education theories of Rudolf Steiner as simply different from my own. In Norway, the vast majority of children attend public school, and I never considered attending one of the Steiner schools - more to the point, my parents never considered it. In my education, even in peagogics, I have been required only to know that the alternative exists and that it is different from what I have come to know myself.

Thus, when a friend of a friend commented on certain similarities between my thesis claims and how she teaches at a Steiner school, I am for the first time forced to study Steiner closer. As I fear this might have some effect on my analysis, I take a Steiner time out starting today and hopefully(?) ended by tomorrow.

In Goethean Science, 1883, Steiner writes that “thinking [...] is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.” To me, thinking is no organ of perception, but an organ of analysis. But in the case of my knowledge of Steiner, I seem to have proven him right: I have not at all analyzed the ideas, I barely glanzed at them.