Steiner Rudolf. Education as a Force For Social Chance. Lectures

Hudson: Anthroposophic Press, 1977. — 272 p.These illuminating lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf school, located in Stuttgart, following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself.Well aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life — psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and growing cynicism — Steiner recognized that any solution for society must address not only economic and legal issues but also that of a free spiritual life.Steiner also saw the need to properly nurture in children the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love at the appropriate stages of development to create mature adults who are inwardly prepared to fulfill the demands of a truly healthy society — adults who can assume the responsibilities of freedom, equality, and brotherhood.