Deepening Education through Meditation

Teaching, especially in Waldorf schools, challenges teachers to develop both professionally and personally through a process of self-education. Jörgen Smit addresses the inner path of the teacher, the emerging human "becoming" who lives in every adult, as well as in each child. Often "natural teachers"—who "light fires" rather than "fill buckets"deepen their teaching through meditation.

In four essays, based on lectures by the author, Lighting Fires gives practical examples that can help develop the powers of thinking, perception, living in time, or "becoming," and imagination. The book also offers insight into the temperaments and how sleep can become a transforming influence in child development.

Contents:
1. One Teacher's Path of Schooling
2. The Awakening of Consciousness in the Etheric
3. The Four Qualities of the Etheric and the Teacher's Path of Schooling
4. The Influence of Spiritual Beings in the Night Upon the Development of Children and Adolescents

Translated by Simon Blaxland-de Lange

Available from  Rudolf Steiner College Bookstore

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