CAKE MOLD OR CALVARY Maths in Architecture – Class 12 – Middle Lesson Did the idea of providing a main lesson on Architecture to Class 12 occur to Rudolf Steiner as he struggled with the labyrinthine complexities of his First Goethean? Or years later when considering the needs of the students in his new high […]
BOOK: Wheels of Fire
Wheels of Fire: 12th Grade Calculus
TO CAST A PEBBLE Calculus – Class 12 – Main Lesson So, we now embark on the final mathematics main lesson for five years of high school, and the last of 36 through 12 years of schooling! The word calculus means “pebble”, as in the small stones used as counters by Roman ‘calculators’. This resonates […]
Wheels of Fire: 12th Grade Investment
ONE HUNDRED GOOD DEEDS Investment – Class 12 – Main Lesson I’ve been an investor since about eight years of age. This is due to maintaining an interest-bearing bank account for most of my life. Shortly after we were married – 35 years ago as I write! – my wife Susan and I became property […]
Wheels of Fire: Sacred Geometry in 12th Grade
THE JOY OF PURE SPIRIT Sacred Geometry – Class 12 – Main Lesson We all know – both teachers and Class 12 students! – that the word ‘geometry’ means earth measure. WE also know that ‘sacred’ means holy. Together these two seem oxymoronical, holy being thought of more in relation to Unearthly phenomena. Alas, life […]
Wheels of Fire: Math in Aviation – 11th Grade
HI – MY NAME IS ALPHA LIMA ALPHA NOVEMBER! Math in Aviation – Class 11 – Middle Lesson That’s Alan actually! Have you ever wondered about that mystical radio code on cop shows where they quote a car number plate as ‘foxtrot, Oscar, whisky”, and such like? Learning this is one of the bonuses of […]
Wheels of Fire: Math in Mechanics
MAY THE FORECES BE WITH YOU Math in Mechanics – Class 11 – Main Lesson A study of the difference between force and movement was employed to open the lesson – this 2-fold theme was carried right through with emphasis being placed on umber as it applies to structure principles in mechanics even extending to […]
Wheels of Fire: 11th Grade Accountancy
OUR ANGEL THE AUDITOR Accountancy – Class 11 – Main Lesson When that apocryphal villain of European folk tales, Bluebeard, was asked how many of his wives he had brutally dispatched to the hereafter, he replied, “What? I’m a murderer, not an accountant!” The point here is that even relatively modest enterprises, like serial killers, […]
Wheels of Fire: Projective Geometry
THE FIRST OF THE LAST Projective Geometry – Class 11 – Main Lesson I will permit Rudolf Steiner to introduce this last of six golden Beetle Books on mathematics. And the last title of the entire 24-book Spiritual Syllabus Series. These six maths books detail over 60 3-week units. The following is one of Steiner’s […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
