Editorial
The shadow self
Attacks by hackers on institutions such as the German government, the banks, the German Association of Waldorf Schools, the publisher Verlag Freies Geistesleben and the editorial staff of Erziehungskunst have begun to increase severely. These institutions are having to take increasingly costly steps to protect themselves, and still they end up lagging behind because there is no such a thing as complete protection. [more]
Editorial
Wondrous ways
“Why do we exist at all?” my youngest asked me. Another sudden, unexpected question that brings me to a standstill. [more]
Editorial
At your service!?
I’ve always only really wanted to do what I want, but now I’ve got a spanner in the works: kids who always seem to get in the way. [more]
Editorial
The courage of the spirit
No one disputes today that we are living in an era of social difficulties, both from a personal as well as a global perspective. [more]
Editorial
Making a friend of time
We mostly experience time as a constraint, an opponent whom we run up against each day: getting up, breakfast, to work, school or kindergarten, shopping, lunch, doctor’s appointment, treatment, hobby, evening meal, house work ... [more]
Editorial
Force majeur?
Force has many faces. It can deprive us of our freedom, but also create something new and bring about change. It always – both in good and evil – crosses boundaries, be it fasting in order quite mundanely to lose a few pounds or with superior intent for divine reward. But it can quickly lose its human face when it is used as a justification and means to bring about an ideal – in extreme form for example in self-chastising bulimia or in a bomb attack. [more]
Editorial
Learning to be social
People first have to learn their social skills. The young child through imitation, the school child through role models, the growing young person through ideals. [more]
Editorial
Who’s actually learning here?
For us, parents and teachers, the wellbeing of our children is the most important thing: that they should be able to develop in accordance with the talents they bring with them, their own individual possibilities – and not in accordance with ours. [more]
Editorial
Refugee streams
Five decades ago, millions of “guest workers” were recruited and contributed significantly to the German economic miracle. I don’t recall them ever representing a threat to the public order. [more]
Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen e.V.