Rudolf Steiner

“The task of the teacher is to release the energies of the child so that he can develop in his own way.”

“The smallest event is regulated by the same eternal laws that rule the heavens.”

“Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”

“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives.”

“Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book.”

“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”

“The human being is a bridge between two worlds.”

“Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another, they can be together even if they have different opinions.”

“To be a free human being is to be able to trust ourselves to our own thinking.”

“Every idea which does not become an ideal, slays a power in the soul.”

“To truly know the world, look deep inside your own being.”

“We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards us from the future.”

“The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art. It must speak to the child’s experience.”

“Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”

“When human beings lose their connection to nature, to the spiritual world, they become sick.”

“One does not begin to be a truly useful human being until one has learned to work in community.”

“Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.”

“Music is the last echo of the spiritual world.”