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298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at a Monthly Assembly 10 Jun 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

But today we have also heard something else, something for which I am especially thankful. We have heard you, under the direction of your teachers, express something that comes from inside of you. We can hear the birds singing out in the woods, and we can also hear what you have expressed to us, but there is a difference between them.
The wooden building of the Goetheanum, the Free School of Spiritual Science, was under construction from 1913-1921.3. Matthew 28:20.4.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Educational Practices in an Age of Decline and the Educational Practices of the Day to Come 11 Jun 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

On the other hand, organic forces that should be freed up only much later, that wanted to become free only much later (if we understand the nature of the child), were pressed into service from the very first day of school. This brought about what you can observe in the skeletal system.
You will find that the relevance of bureaucrats has not been reduced under recent conditions. On the contrary, they are able to have a much greater effect and to subvert much more than they could under the old system.
We must bring about a totally different encounter between home and school than was the case under the old school practices. Either there was a conflict, or the children were thrown back and forth between home and school, so to speak.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the end of the first school year 24 Jul 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

And now, although you will not yet be able to understand it, I would like to say a few words in your presence to your dear teachers, who have now put all the diligent work of the Waldorf School behind them, and I would like to shake their hands.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address and discussion at a parents' evening 13 Jan 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

We may believe that we understand the nature of the growing human being. However, what induces a child to read, write, and do arithmetic must be drawn from the very nature of the growing person, and here we soon notice what a complicated thing it is to truly understand the human being.
After a time it comes to the surface again. It is the same river; it has simply flowed underground for a while, but now as it continues above ground, it is called the Unz. Then it again disappears and flows underground.
And in fact, we believe that much of what is so painful in our day and age is crying out for the next generation to be made good and capable through an education of this sort. We also believe that if parents understand why they are entrusting their children to a school that is set up on the basis of a real and thorough understanding of the human being, they also really understand what our present times demand.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the end of the second school year 11 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Similarly, if you did not pay attention, you will understand nothing of life, and then your whole life will be like a sun with a big cloud in front of it that covers the whole world with hailstones.
You can be certain, ladies and gentlemen, that when you as parents strive toward this agreement and express it in the right way, harmoniously and with fellowfeeling, as you did just now, our teachers then feel that they have solid ground under their feet, regardless of whatever opposition and enmity they may encounter from other directions.
With the best forces you have rooted in you, you try to understand the souls of growing human beings and to work on these souls, not in the sense of a school promoting a single philosophy, but in the sense of permeating an entire system of education with a thoroughly spiritualized attitude.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the first official members’ meeting of the Independent Waldorf School Association 17 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

In addition, the faculty first had to come to a common understanding of what our task would have to become as we got into the details of pedagogical and methodological activity.
But we need to be sensitive to the fact that a lesson requires presence of mind and should therefore under no circumstances be subjected to visitation unless there is some urgent need. I believe, therefore, that it is also the view of the other members of the college that the most we can allow is for you to see the classrooms, and even this would be burdensome at the moment.
Because of a ruling on the laws governing primary schools, the Waldorf School had to reapply for approval in the fall of 1920. This was granted under the proviso that starting in the 1922/23 school year it, like other private schools, was not to admit a new first grade and would have to decrease the number of students in the first four grades.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the beginning of the third school year 18 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

That is when other spiritual beings are awake. This is something you cannot understand yet. (That is why you have to go to school—to learn to understand things that you do not understand now.)
In the Waldorf School you are meant to become devout children, children who know that people also have something inside them that we cannot see. And as I said, even though you may not have understood very much of this now, that is why you are coming to the Waldorf School, where you will learn to understand it.
In acting in this way, we understand what we must do so that humanity can progress from this age of great misery to different age. We understand what can come of wanting to have our young people led with understanding.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the foundation-stone laying of the Waldorf School’s new building 16 Dec 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

That Emil Molt was able to conceive this idea out of his feeling for these great issues of our times will never be forgotten and will always be given due recognition wherever people have any understanding of such needs of humanity and of the great impulses of human evolution in general. In order to inscribe it on your hearts, dear children, dear students, I must also recall the people who have decided to form this school’s first faculty.
The foundation stone containing the verse was well protected under the main entry. The original building, which had been acquired and remodeled by Emil Molt, was not damaged.
This Association was to awaken a feeling for independent spiritual life in the broadest possible circles and to create as quickly as possible the means for establishing schools independent of the state, wherever this was still possible under national laws. When people later set out to make the Association a reality, Rudolf Steiner said that the time in which an independent spiritual life could have been initiated was over.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address and discussion at a parents' evening 09 May 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

At an earlier parents’ meeting I was able to attend, I pointed out that simply because we are striving for an independent school system, we are dependent on being met with understanding, profound understanding, on the part of the parents. If we have this understanding, we will be able to work properly, and perhaps we will also be able after all to show the true value of what is intended with the Waldorf School.
Just think of how different your situation is from other people’s with regard to understanding the Waldorf system of education. Other people have to make an effort to understand when we tell them we want to do things in a certain way because we believe it is the only right way.
Some people may have the feeling that I have been too radical in my choice of some of the things I have pointed out today, but I hope to have been understood on some of these points. I especially hope that I have not been understood merely on details. I would like to be understood on the farreaching issue of our need to be in cordial harmony with the parent body if we are to function effectively in the Waldorf School.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the beginning of the fourth school year 20 Jun 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

You are meant to feel your way into what is really there in a human being. You must learn to understand that people have to learn by working, because if they do not, they cannot be real human beings.

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