Who was Rudolph Steiner?
Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher and scientist who founded the first Waldorf School in Germany in 1919. His knowledge of child development, described early in the 20th century, has been supported by modern research in education and neuropsychology. Through Waldorf education, Steiner hoped that young people would develop the capacities of soul and intellect and the strength of will that would prepare them to meet the challenges of their own time and the future. Since its founding by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, the Waldorf school movement has grown to more than 800 schools throughout the world, more than 150 of them in the United States and Canada. Some say Waldorf education is the fastest growing educational movement in the world.
