Waldorf Education and Child Development

The First Waldorf school opened its doors in Stuttgart, Germany, in September, 1919, under the auspices of Emil Molt, the Director of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company and a student of Rudolf Steiner It was only the previous year —amid the social chaos after World War I —that Emil Molt responded to Steiner's prognosis that true human change would be impossible unless enough people received an education that developed the whole human being. He decided to create a school for his workers' children. Conversations with the Minister of Education and with Rudolf Steiner in early 1919 led quickly to the formation of the first school.

Since then, more than six hundred schools have opened around the world —in Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Georgia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Japan, and many others. The Waldorf school movement is now the largest independent method of education in the world. There are now more than 120 Waldorf schools in United States, Canada, and Mexico.

	School Renewal A Spiritual Journey for Change Torin M. Finser 192 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-493-7 $16.95		Millennial Child Transforming Education in the Twenty-first Century Eugene Schwartz 320 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-465-1 $19.95
	School As A Journey The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class Torin M. Finser 256 pages paperback ISBN 0-88010-389-2 $14.95		Waldorf Education Christopher Clouder & Martyn Rawson 128 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-460-0 $9.95
	Drawing and Painting in Rudolf Steiner Schools Margrit Jünemann & Fritz Weitman 206 pages, paperback ISBN 1-869890-41-8 $34.95		Encountering the Self Transformation & Destiny in the Ninth Year Hermann Koepke SteinerBooks 118 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-279-9 $12.95
	Free to Learn Introducing Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education Lynne Oldfield 256 pages, paperback ISBN 1-903458-06-4 $19.95		The Developing Child Sense and Nonsense in Education Willi Aeppli 224 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-491-0 $16.95
	Rhythms of Learning What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers Rudolf Steiner Selected Lectures by Rudolf Steiner; edited and introduced by Roberto Trostli 416 pages, paperback ISBN 0-88010-451-1 $24.95

See Also:
About Waldorf Education
Foundations of Waldorf Education
Waldorf Schools
Learning to Read & Write in the Waldorf Schools