Soaring on the wind
The goal of giving the young person an education that makes them free is one of the characteristics of Waldorf education. The place where in lower and middle school the crucial developmental impulses in the sphere of the will and the feelings lie is precisely where the forces should be developed on which subsequent freedom in self-confident, independent thinking can build. [more]
Upper school: education to freedom?
“Receive the child in reverence, educate them in love, let them go forth in freedom.” That is a precise characterisation of Waldorf education as a whole as well as its focus in the first three seven-year periods. [more]
Publisher's View
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]
Living lessons
Living concepts not definitions – botany in Waldorf school
Teachers preparing themselves for the botany main lessons in the fifth or sixth year of school face a major task because they should follow a new approach suggested by Rudolf Steiner. [more]
Waldorf worldwide
Alexander Strakosch – the Waldorf engineer
When in the spring of 1920 it became clear that a group of class 8 pupils would not move up to class 9 but were seeking a transition to practical work, Rudolf Steiner suggested that a so-called continuation school be established for these pupils: “We would have to go for the practical and artistic above all. They should be taught concepts from life, from agriculture, from the trades, industry and commerce. They should do business essays and accounting, and in the artistic field visual arts, music and literature. That would be a task for Mr Strakosch. Life has to be looked at as a school. They can be told all the time that from now on they are being educated by life.” [more]
Series
Leonore Bertalot – pioneer of the Brazilian Waldorf movement
When Rudolf Lanz, at the time a council member of the Escola Higienópolis school association in São Paulo, was looking for a “competent and all-round inwardly stable teacher”, he asked in many letters for support from Ernst Weißert at the German Association of Waldorf Schools. Finally, Leonore and Italo Bertalot joined the school in 1962 and supplemented the small faculty, she as a class teacher and he as an English teacher. [more]
Editorial
Freedom is possible
Freedom can be experienced in different ways. On the one hand this is due to the fact that one person’s freedom need not necessarily be shared by another person, indeed, may even be experienced as a lack of freedom. On the other hand, there are various levels of the human being which determine the way that the experience of freedom comes to expression. [more]
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