Waldorf Education

Educating the mind without educating the heart

is no education at all.

~ Aristotle

We've curated a selection of videos and articles about Waldorf education that may deepen

your understanding of the value of this particular approach to educating children.

 

Preparing for Life: Why Silicon Valley Parents are Turning to Waldorf Education

 

The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility; these are the very nerve of education.

~ Rudolf Steiner

 

 

An Education for the Future with Actor John C. Reilly

                             

            

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

            

~ Rudolf Steiner

 

What Can Slow Schools Teach Us? 

San Deigo Union-Tribune

                            

            

Waldorf school education is not a pedagogical system but an art - the art of awakening what is actually there within the human being.

            

~ Rudolf Steiner

 

 

Jack Petrash - Supporting Children to Develop Resiliency - Siskiyou School

 

            

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives.

            

~ Rudolf Steiner

 

 

Betty Staley: Understanding Waldorf

                             

            

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It it the one most adaptable to change.

            

~ Charles Darwin

 

 

Waldorf Education: What is Holistic Learning?

                             

            

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

            

~ Horace Mann

 

 

Educating Children for the Journey: Jack Petrash TED Talk