Editorial
Bag of lies
Do you know the story of the man who gathered up all the lies and put them in a sack so that people only ever told one another the truth from then on? People’s life together became so loveless, hard and unbearable that the man quickly opened the sack and let the lies go again. [more]
Series, Truth and Lie
Patron saint of children
Klara Hattermann and the beginnings of the Waldorf kindergarten movement. [more]
Editorial, Transitions
Changing matter
Henry sits listlessly at his desk. He displays no interest in the history lesson whatsoever. Suddenly he sits up: how can it be that this despot came to power? [more]
Series, Transitions
Woman power in Great Britain
Rudolf Steiner supported the development of Waldorf education in England with lively interest. He gave important lecture cycles on education there between 1923 and 1924, visited the first school and advised the founding college of teachers. [more]
Who educates whom?, Series
With eurythmy and Chinese in Colombia
Walter Boris Liebenthal (1933–2011) left a rich literary and artistic legacy for the Chinese Waldorf school movement. [more]
Editorial, Who educates whom?
Misunderstanding
We’re all familiar with it, be it at home, in class or in the car: loud, arguing children, hitting and scratching one another, screaming and shouting as they climb over tables and benches, ignoring all instructions, and, to cap it all, answering back. [more]
Editorial, Threefoldness
Three things
Threefoldness is a structural principle of living things. No development would be possible without a third element, everything would rigidify in polarities. [more]
Series, Threefoldness
Mary-Joan Fajardo. Pioneer of Waldorf education in the Philippines
Mary-Joan Fajardo was one of the well-educated, culturally interested and independent women in the Philippines. In the 1980s, she worked as a lecturer of the Philippine Educational Theatre Association in Manila and, in the face of the worrying signs in Philippine politics in the 1970s and 1980s, asked herself what was wrong with the world and how better conditions could be created. Her answer was: through education. [more]
Whither Waldorf?, Editorial
Where is Waldorf going?
It is not that easy to break away from history, tradition and habit and to get a clear view of a development that lies in the future. In this respect, thoughts about a possible future for the Waldorf school movement do not differ from those about the possible future for our children: we do not know what the future will bring us through either. [more]
Publisher's View, Freedom
Stars in the sky
Have you heard of the “Democratic Voice of Youth”? It is an association of young people who have grown tired of waiting for us oldies finally to wake up. [more]
Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen e.V.