Spirits of Fire An Evolutionary Overview of a Steiner High School EDUCATION TOWARDS FREEDOM “Freedom of the will is experienced when there is a balance between physical and spiritual tendencies, when the upward force of levity works counter to the downward pull of gravity – when the angel holds the devil in check. If man […]
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A Steiner High School: 7 “Deadly Sins” of Adolescence
THE “SEVEN DEADLY SINS” – OF ADOLESCENCE! Note that like all of Alan Whitehead’s writings the opinions below are his own and may not align with Earthschooling or Waldorf Books. We will be updating some of these chapters in the future with additional and/or updated information. At around the 14th years, stirrings of nameless passions […]
A Steiner High School: The Seven Planet Personalities
SEVEN PLANET PERSONALITIES Rudolf Steiner was born on February 27, 1861. In the new ordering of the processional Zodiac since 1413, that makes him an Aquarian. The quality ascribed (by him!) to Aquarius is ‘man in a state of balance’ – balance between thinking, feeling and will. Thus, as a purely bodily/zodiacal man, was Rudolf […]
A Steiner High School: Sexism in Education
STEINER SKITTLES SEXISM A remarkable educational innovation occurred in a new school in Stuttgart, Germany in 1919 – and went almost unnoticed, remaining so to a large extent even today – especially in Australia. This was the removal of any and all sexual biases in the schooling of children and adolescents, from 7 to 18 […]
A Steiner High School: What is the Future of the Steiner High School?
THE FUTURE FOR STEINER HIGH SCHOOLS? There are three kinds of high schools, those that belong to the past, with its antiquated and discredited period teaching, competition, exams and streaming. The second is eminently suited to the present, the kind described in this book. But for those whose vision leaps ahead into the future, there […]
A Steiner High School: The Curriculum
WHAT ABOUT THE CURRICULUM? Students like to be tested, inherent in this is a challenge – one even tests oneself constantly through life. If the test is against one’s previous performance, then it is a useful and valid procedure. However the more competitive against (not the word) other people the test is, the less justified. […]