{"id":75207,"date":"2026-11-04T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=75207"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:41:58","slug":"adolescent-wilfullness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/adolescent-wilfullness\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescent Wilfullness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>What do you see? <\/em><strong>How a student\u2019s handwriting became a &#8220;Road to Damascus&#8221; moment for Sven Saar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s one thing I\u2019d like to apologize to you for,\u201d I said to a student I was seeing off to high school after eight years as his class teacher. \u201cI really tried, but I just couldn\u2019t teach you proper handwriting. In that regard I failed as a teacher, and I\u2019m sorry!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you why you failed,&#8221; Oliver replied, dryly but kindly. &#8220;I resisted you for eight years, because I prefer typing on a keyboard\u2014and in middle school, you finally gave up.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This conversation took place ten years ago, and its message still shakes me to the core: Had I really failed to grant Oliver\u2014and many other students before him\u2014to have a vigorous, independent will of their own? Why did it never occur to me that &#8220;he simply doesn&#8217;t want to&#8221;? Henning K\u00f6hler once said that a person is an individual to the extent that they refuse to conform. Does this perhaps apply most of all to children, precisely because their resistance is often spontaneous and clumsy, thereby revealing themselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does much of a teacher\u2019s professional ethos still follow the principle: &#8220;Become like me&#8221;? Especially when, as a Waldorf teacher, I fancy myself artistic, kind, and wise? This is what a human being is like, this is how they ought to be. Am I capable of letting children be different\u2014and allowing them to discover who they are by standing in opposition to my own expectations? What do I need in order to endure that? And what do I need to make it possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/modernteacher.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Modern Teacher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Paula Boslau<br><strong>Image <\/strong>Private<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you see? How a student\u2019s handwriting became a &#8220;Road to Damascus&#8221; moment for Sven Saar. \u201cThere\u2019s one thing I\u2019d like to apologize to you for,\u201d I said to a student I was seeing off to high school after eight years as his class teacher. \u201cI really tried, but I just couldn\u2019t teach you proper handwriting. In that regard I failed as a teacher, and I\u2019m sorry!\u201d &#8220;I can tell you why you failed,&#8221; Oliver replied, dryly but kindly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9297,"featured_media":74882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8820,8812],"tags":[11854,11855,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-75207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pedagogy","tag-ausgabe-43-2026-en","tag-english-issue-45-2026","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75213,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207\/revisions\/75213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}