Land of Three Oceans Extracts from a lecture given at Rudolf Steiner House, Sydney, May 8, 2001 Even though Saint Francis of Assisi had created communities of caring for the sick and afflicted, his impoverished patients, more often than not, languished. The Medieval medical skills available to him, based often on superstition and spurious invention, […]
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What is X? Why is Y? Steiner’s 3-Fold Commonwealth
RUDOLF STEINER’S 3-FOLD COMMONWEALTH What has an exposition on Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Commonwealth to do with a book on maths teaching? Well, important lanes on the numbers highway are economics in general, and finance in particular (two different things actually). Steiner education works so well due to the teacher being informed on the spiritual reality […]
What is X? Why is Y? The Four Cosmic Curves
THE FOUR COSMIC CURVES Note that Earthschooling tackles this in high school… The cone contains the four primary mathematical principles of creation (see diagram A). In horizontal section we have the Circle, the curve of beginning – ‘…and God divided…’! The circle is the curve of Division, of the physical or structural body – the […]
What is X? Why is Y? Math Texts in 7th and 8th Grade
TRIAL BY TEXTBOOK So we’ve had our three maths main lessons in Class 8, and used a wide range of numeracy skills in many other units throughout the year – is this enough? Alas no – mathematics is a subject, especially in this techno-mad age, requiring continual, sequential and incremental development, in particular in concept-challenged […]
What is X? Why is Y? Logarithms in 8th Grade
THE LOGOS OF NUMBER Logarithms – Class 8 – Main Lesson The student teacher’s face was a mask of misery as she sat beside the hospital bed – more miserable even than the old-hand high school teacher occupying said bed with a broken leg! “But I know so little about maths!” Student Teacher protested “How […]
What is X? Why is Y? Personal Finance in 8th Grade
MY WORD IS MY BOND Personal Finance – Class 8 – Main Lesson The Iranian god Mithra was born from a rock; his mission, to serve an earth-bound humanity. He sits on the right-hand side of Ahura Mazdao, the Sun God. Mithra slew the Cosmic Bull; whose blood subsequently nourished the sentient animal world – […]