Educere= “to lead out”
Educational Indoctrination
the Prussian model of education -
“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will the opposite being impossible.” – Johanne Fichte, Architect of the Prussian System
Children are indoctrinated into a cultish religious belief in the inevitability and legitimacy of the State from before they are able to think independently, creatively, or critically.
“He alone who owns the youth gains the future”
- Adolf Hitler
The cultivation of the whole human being — Body, mind, and spirit
The Education of Children
Steiner on a child’s education
“Love for all creation must be added to this gratitude. And if we lead the child on to the age of nine or ten in the way described, nothing is easier than to reveal in the living world around him the qualities he must learn to love. Love for every flower, for sunshine, for rain—this again will deepen perception of the world in a religious sense. If gratitude and love have been unfolded in the child before the age of ten, we can then proceed to develop a true sense and understanding of duty. Premature development of the sense of duty by dint of commands and injunctions will never lead to a religious inwardness…. We must show the child how divinity is imminent in all nature, in all human evolution, how it lives and moves, not only in the stones, but in the hearts of other men, in their every act…. In this way, the basis for a right attitude to the Mystery of Golgotha just between the ninth and tenth years is laid down.”
Library of Light Edition 1.0 — Last revised: April 2026