(GA 298, 28) [R. Steiner]
"A teacher must be able to raise and teach not only those who will become as smart as him, but also really be able to raise and teach those who will later be much smarter and superior than himself. But a teacher can do this only if he gets rid of the habit of wanting to make students like him. If you can stand in front of the class and be self-sacrificing even to external manifestations, turn off your human sympathies and antipathies, overcome your character traits and surrender to what the students - unconsciously - tell the teacher, then the teacher can educate both the slightly retarded and the gifted."
(GA 306,130) [R. Steiner]
Peter Selgs born in 1963 in Stuttgart, studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head of the Department of Child and Youth Psychiatry at the Herdeke Clinic in Germany. Currently, Pēteris Selgs is the director of the Ita Wegman Institute for basic research in anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland), professor of medical anthropology and ethics at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter near Bonn, Germany. He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books and publications in anthropology, medicine, education and biographical history. Married, the family has five children. As a psychiatrist who has worked extensively with adolescents in crisis and who has a deep, thorough and existential knowledge of the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, dr. In this book, Selg is able to shed light on Rudolf Steiner's radical views on the teenage years, which require both teachers and parents to change with the teenagers.
"Young people must wake up to their own ability to make judgments and take responsibility depending on the circumstances around them. They are not created to take over the faith and traditions of the teaching generation, but to learn from their life experience, to experience that their actions have binding consequences that determine the present and shape the social environment of the future. Steiner calls youth education a 'reawakening' education."