Editorial
What educates a person?
The so-called digital pact to promote digital learning in German schools has been agreed. The billions are flowing. The future of education is safe. The digital classroom is intended not just to make pupils compatible with Industry 4.0 but at the same time to put an end to teacher shortages and problems with learning. [more]
Publisher's View
We’re the prediction
“Prediction is difficult – particularly when it involves the future.” Be it Mark Twain or someone else who said these nice words: if we ask ourselves today where we will be in a hundred years, the prediction is certainly difficult. [more]
Series
Francis Edmunds. A Waldorf pioneer in the English-speaking world
Francis Edmunds (1902 – 1989) grew up in Lithuania in a Russian-Jewish family and spent his adolescence and student years in England, Russia, Lebanon and Switzerland. He brought with him the intense attentiveness towards other people from the east of Europe and an incredible cosmopolitanism and breadth of interest from all the other locations. [more]
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Anatoly Pinsky. A Russian Waldorf teacher and politician
Anatoly Pinsky (1956–2006) is one of the most important pioneers of Waldorf education in Russia. He grew up as the son of a physics professor and as a young man studied physics and mathematics at the Institute of Education in Moscow along with theory of science and philosophy. [more]
Editorial
Artificial or artistic?
Art plays a big role in Waldorf education. As early as kindergarten, and then from class 1 onwards there is drawing, painting, clay modelling, singing and dancing; there are the classic craft subjects such as handwork, woodwork, hammering copper, bookbinding, forging and, finally, music, eurythmy, drama, circus skills and much else. [more]
Editorial
A clothes dryer for Mr Dula
There are certain beliefs as to what drives our economic life. All of them are irrational – not a basis on which we generally think economic decisions are taken. [more]
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The first Waldorf school Down Under
After its foundation in Stuttgart in 1919, the Waldorf school movement spread not just in Germany and Europe. Who were the pioneers who founded Waldorf schools in all parts of the world? Sylvia Hazel Brose (1915-2001) in Australia was one of them. [more]
Editorial
Dare to trust
Trust is a gift of love. If it is not given unconditionally, there is no love, no trust. It is nothing less than educational betrayal to say: “You first have to earn my trust.” Trust is not something that can be traded! [more]
Editorial
Not for egotists
Rudolf Steiner referred to many ways of meditative practice that are true to life. But he also stressed: do not take any step in obtaining knowledge of hidden truths without taking three steps in improving your character for the better. [more]
Publisher's View
Attitude – unfaked
A few weeks ago I visited the director of our Waldorf100 films in California and experienced the deep shame of many Americans about their president. [more]
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