Understanding young children : excerpts from lectures by Rudolf Steiner compiled for the use of kindergarten teachers.

Originally published: Stuttgart : International Association of Waldorf Kindergartens, 1975.

The child before the seventh year -- Walking, speaking, thinking - imitation in a bodily-religious way -- The secret of the doll - love, truth, clarity -- The spirit which has descended from the spiritual world -- Sense-organ and the gift of fantasy - a feeling for music -- Walking speaking and thinking - gratitude, love, duty -- Using the spirit - the child is entirely sense-organ -- Blood circulation-nerve activity - gratitude and devotion -- Love and freedom -- The activity of will in the senses - Milk-- The world is good / The world is beautiful / The world is true -- The permeation of the human organization by the ego -- Education and the moral life -- The threefold educational basis - problems that can arise in man -- Memory - the forces of evil in the child -- How soul-life my affect the body -- Dialect - second birth - play -- The development of the brain -- The connection between the first and fourth seven year periods -- Phantasy in the child -- The inner musical capacity at the age of three and four -- Eurythmy -- Physical impressions - Rickets - Colors in the environment -- The senses and imitation -- All inner experience is to the child like a soul-perception -- The body as a model - A priestly mood in education -- The first seven years and the development of the consciousness soul -- Picture book with figures that can be made to move -- We need an adequate word for 'unbornness' of man -- Before we think, we must experience the condition of wonder.