schools based on the philosophical teachings of Austrian-born social
philosopher and educator, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). In the early 1900s Steiner founded a spiritual
movement and established a
school in Switzerland to
develop his
philosophy, attempting to explain the
world in
terms of human spiritual
nature, or a
level of
thinking independent of the senses. Subsequently several
institutions and
schools were created to forward his teachings and by the
late twentieth century, more than 170
schools throughout the
world existed.
schools which
use the educational methods
developed by Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925). Steiner was the
founder of anthroposophy, a spiritual
movement still
active in Europe and the United
States, based on the
notion that there is a spiritual
world comprehensible to pure
thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental
knowledge. Anthroposophy
centers on "
knowledge produced by the higher
self in
man." Steiner's first
school, which he characterized as a "
school of spiritual
science," was built near Basel, Switzerland in 1913. Many
different types of
schools have grown out of Steiner's
work.
the Waldorf
school (near Stuttgart,
Germany) and the "free
high school for spiritual
science," (near Basel, Switzerland) founded by Austrian social
philosopher Rudolph Steiner (1861 - 1925).