Anthroposophy

The aim of this paper is to explore biodynamic farming as it specifically relates to viticulture. Biodynamic practices may have an impact on not only the health of vineyard soil and crop, but also enology. According to Trippetts, Count Carl von Keyserlingk of Germany requested a group of farmers and doctors to address the problem of declining soil and crop quality in Europe (Tippetts, 2012). Biodynamics was developed to answer this request. In the 1920s Dr. Rudolf Steiner developed the theory of biodynamics (Tippetts, 2012). Dr. Steiner presented a series of lectures that explored the theory of providing a holistic approach to caring for the land, crops and animals. The premise of biodynamics is to consider the sustainability of different elements, such as crops, animals, and soil to improve ecological harmony within the farm (Villanueva-Rey, Vázquez-Rowe, & Teresa Moreira, 2013). Steiner thought that by restoring the equilibrium of an ecosystem one would produce a stronger plant that could more effectively resist disease and pests pressure (Villanueva-Rey, Vázquez-Rowe, & Teresa Moreira, 2013). The biodynamic theory relates to the thought that by improving the health of a plant through the manipulation of abiotic factors, a farmer would produce a stronger plant with an increased ability to fight negative biotic factors such as disease and/or pests. A plant exposed to positive abiotic influences will have more resistance when presented with negative biotic factors…

Waldorf Schools are private, equivocal and non-denominational programs with an art-based curriculum. In 1919, the first Waldorf school was founded by Philosopher Rudolf Steiner in response to the trauma gripping Central European youth following World War 1 (Regeneration, 2017). Due to its unique curriculum, Waldorf schools remain relatively ambiguous to the general public. When first making contact with this pedagogy, people tend to find certain peculiarities within the school that may provoke…

God is my Guide When first going through the processes of deciding where to attend college, packing up most of my belongings and moving to a new place with all new people that were so different from where I grew up, I felt exactly like the description in Learn for the Love of God when it says, “I only knew that something exciting and a little terrifying was beginning” (Opitz and Melba 2). My actual expectations for the University of Northwestern, St. Paul were few, but my worries, questions and…

Introduction Many people are unintentionally filled with impractical optimism. This optimism often fuels ideas of the perfect world. Their minds create a world in which every human being is committed to creating a higher quality of life in a more desirable living area, where people are able to look at the bigger picture that is far removed from their concrete experiences. The false front of being a quick fix that the perfect world seems to be, causes people to underestimate the amount of effort…

doctoral dissertation was about the epistemology through the work of Johann Fichte, the German philosopher. This thesis later became a foundation of anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy that reflects to the human development. Steiner believed the spiritual world since his childhood. When he was nine, he experienced seeing the spiritual figure of his dead aunt. Since then he started to believe in spirituality, and later he was trained to have an ability of spiritual clairvoyance. From 1890 to…

“Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she’ll conquer the world.” but she died having become a million - dollar movie star. In 1962 was fried by twentieth-century fox from the production of something’s got to give because of her chronic lateness and no-shows ( she didn’t appear for the first two weeks of filming). 2. Jeane russell was paid around 10 times as much as marilyn when they co-starred in prefer blondes.…

Understanding Principles of Waldorf Education for Kindergarten Work while you work, and play while you play, For, that is the way to be happy and gay. All that you do; do with your might! Things done in halves are never done right. Pre-primary teachers at Waldorf work hard at play because play is an important part of child development. I have been a Waldorf teacher and I loved every minute of it. But what pleases me the most is that my students loved it even more. We have built a comfortable…

rejected, and revised by the students. In 1930 Harkness gave a multi-million dollar donation to a private secondary school in New Hampshire under the condition that his way of thinking would be implemented. Harness’s donation allowed for more teachers to be hired to reduce the class room size to about fifteen students per class. (His teaching methods were better taught to a smaller class sized for the shy or slow individual will not be submerged.) This way of teaching would help special needs…

from Physical? • Although etymology of the word is clear, when deducting all mere rhetoric and verbal & written ornamentation, one faces a situation that widely accepted the definition of a ‘Spiritual’ does not exist. Back in human history, the word ‘translatable’ to Spiritual was part of Biblical context as something Holly or animated by God. Much later, as human Intelligence and inquisitiveness about Life advanced, it has acquired first social and in modern age a psychological meaning…

patient and will stimulate their curiosity and feeling of success when they got the answer. Compare and Contrast Both Waldorf education and Reggio Emilia believe that children are active learner who construct and experience their own knowledge. But Waldorf believe that children development divided into three parts which are early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence. Whereas, Reggio Emilia believe that children are encourage to explore. Waldorf Education emphasized of the development of…