Fear, ambition and love in the classroom

By Martin Carle, January 2020

When I was studying Waldorf education, I was smitten with an advertising poster that was hanging in the seminar building. It showed a picture of the young Rudolf Steiner which had the words above it in large letters: “There are only three educational tools: fear, ambition and love. We dispense with the first two …” [more]

Living lessons

The magic of things foreign

By Erhard Dahl, January 2020

The formative influence of foreign language lessons. [more]

Waldorf worldwide

The clown in the teacher

By Rosie Harrison, Robin Dennis, January 2020

Two freshly-baked teachers describe how theatre clowning during their teacher training was able to give them a taste of freedom – a freedom they seek each day anew as they stand in front of their class. [more]

Waldorf worldwide

Tracks of the crocodile

By Sven Saar, January 2020

Waldorf 100 anniversary conference “The first teachers’ course” at the Goetheanum. [more]

Series

With eurythmy and Chinese in Colombia

By Nana Göbel, January 2020

Walter Boris Liebenthal (1933–2011) left a rich literary and artistic legacy for the Chinese Waldorf school movement.  [more]

Editorial

Misunderstanding

By Mathias Maurer, January 2020

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]

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