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FuckTheGlobalstElite ago

I did not want to make pre-conceived judgments of a Waldorf education based solely on the evidence of JA and CPP connections; however, as I choose paths and investigate down them, this ideology gets stranger and more disturbing.

From the Emerson Waldorf School site, provided by a previous comment that points out the pedo logo, I browsed through newsletters and came across Douglas Gerwin, who was going to be a speaker at the school according to the newsletter I was reading.

I found and read the introduction to one of his books titled, Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human Sexuality and the Education of Youth in Waldorf Schools. In the last paragraph on page 8, Gerwin aligns his view with the "intentions" of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Well, I looked up Goethe and found that he wrote of both boys and girls: "I like boys a lot, but the girls are even nicer. If I tire of her as a girl, she'll play the boy for me as well" (Goethe, 1884). Goethe also defended pederasty: "Pederasty is as old as humanity itself, and one can therefore say that it is natural, that it resides in nature, even if it proceeds against nature. What culture has won from nature will not be surrendered or given up at any price.".

Don't know about everyone else here, but I find it EXTREMELY FUCKING DISTURBING that Gerwin's sex ed book uses the "intentions" of Goethe to support its approach....just saying....

Singleservename ago

Please. Goethe came up before here on voat and it got really embarassing so before you go any further: Goethe is the bard of the Germans and the most famous figure in German literature.

He lived at the end of the 18th century when pederasty and what we now call pedophilia (except prepubescent) were as normal as slavery and public torture.

He's considered a very important thinker too (not by me) so quotations, citations and paraphrases of his work are standard fare for (pseudo)intellectual discourse.

PizzaGateDiscovery ago

If the references to Goethe are specifically about Essays on Human Sexuality taught at the school then the poster has a good point.