We Have the Will to Work...

These words are from a verse often spoken by teachers at the start of a meeting. They may sound simple, but what they suggest is initiative and freedom that direct the work of the teacher. Similarly, we aim to develop the will to work in our students. This will, balanced with thinking and feeling, leads to empowered individuals who are free to act out of integrity and wisdom cultivated over years of meaningful experiences that are full of met challenges and constant effort.

In her recent talk to parents, Katherine Arconati built understanding of what is meant by the will and how we can nurture healthy, holistic development of ourselves and our children through its development. If you wish to learn more about how the will is central to Steiner pedagogy, please take the time to listen to the recording of the lecture, now available here on GLO.

The education and teaching of the future will have to set particular value on the development of the will and feeling nature. Feeling and will are left more and more to what is called chance, because there is no insight into the real nature of will.

Rudolf Steiner – The Foundations of Human Experience