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To be a teacher and educator one must work with what is taking place in the depths of human nature.”
~ Rudolf Steiner, “The Study of Man,” Lecture IV

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In this next installment of Spiritual Science in the Present Age, Thomas H. Meyer discusses education and Rudolf Steiner’s pioneering development of a new “art of education,” known today as Waldorf education.

In August 1919, just after WWI, Steiner helped launch the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart for the children of workers at Emil Molt’s Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory. Steiner’s “Study of Man” lectures formed the basis for training the first cohort of teachers. In his view, educators have a responsibility to nurture each child’s individuality, intelligence, and creativity, rather than promote rote or mechanical learning. The goal is to help children learn and evolve to become truer to their own inner being.

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12 Comments

  1. Can Her Meyer write a book about this? I am looking for better models of teaching.

  2. My daughter went to a Waldorf school until Grade IV. We had to pull her out because they went completely woke. The first thing that was tossed was Eurythmy. Three years later, they no longer use pronouns.

    The good that came out of us leaving is that we’ve been homeschooling using the Waldorf curriculum. Next year is Grade X and I have no idea what to do for the Humanities. Anyone know a Dr. Farrell (an old-school academic) who would like to tutor?

    I can’t express how disgusted I am with the woke agenda. I’m sick of churlish moral busybodies playing dress-up.

    1. Yup. I an sure you can find such a person if you look. Will poke around.

    2. Education is always under attack, yet it rises again and again. France’s precursor of MIT is one example, https://web.archive.org/web/20220506150152/http://r.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/1997/bourbons_pbeaudry.html

      It is as a result of the destruction of the Ecole Polytechnique’s national education system, that France lost its soul as a nation-state … From 1794 to 1814, the Ecole Polytechnique had become without any doubt the leading scientific institution in the world … The education program of the Ecole Polytechnique was based on universal principles which subsumed and linked together methods applicable to both Arts and Sciences. 

      Its principal mission was to give the new Republic, as efficiently and as rapidly as humanly possible, scientists, and engineers to serve in public works, as well as in the military. Also required were architects, manufacturers, artists, physicists, chemists, etc.; and the polytechnique method of descriptive geometry, instituted by Monge, served as the theoretical and practical epistemological basis for that purpose … 

      … the method of discovery was made accessible to every citizen, especially the poor and the orphans, in order to enlarge the pool of contributions that would be put at the service of the nation-state. Carnot made clear that this principle of education was not just for France, but for the whole world. “Elevate to the dignity of man every individual of the human species,” he wrote.

    3. Hi Elisabeth, I’m a fellow homeschooler. If I wanted to learn more about Waldorf Curriculum materials, could you recommend a good place to start? Thank you

      1. For math, I can’t recommend Jamie York’s Math Academy highly enough.
        For main lesson (up to Grade VIII/IX): Live education.
        I’ve heard good things about Lotus and Ivy.

    4. I don’t know any tutors off the top of my head, but I did use a Waldorf homeschool curriculum from Oak Meadow for the first 6 years of our oldest son’s education. I didn’t notice any wokeness, but it might have changed. We ended up using some of theirs for art, some tutors with their own books mixed with other curriculums for his later grades (he is in 8th currently). I loved using the Oak Meadow program. Maybe they know of tutors that could help? Customer service was wonderful for us. Good luck with Humanities! God Bless! Jen https://www.oakmeadow.com/oak-meadow-and-waldorf/

  4. Oh my goodness I can’t wait to set aside some time and digest this one . Merging science and spirituality is kind of my model to make sense of so much …. Thanks for providing us sanity in an unsane world!

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