Steiner Education

Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian Philosopher.  He was born on February 25, 1861 and died on March 30, 1925.  He is also a social reformer, architect and esotericist.  In the 20th century he founded Anthroposophy.  There is an education that was based off of the educational philosophy of Steiner.The education is based off of Steiner's theories of child development.  He states that early childhood learning is imitative and sensory based.  Then during elementary school learning is imaginative and artistic.  And adolescence it is developing intellectual understand and social responsibility.  The first Waldorf school was founded in 1919 for children of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany. As of today, there are 1025 independent Waldorf schools, 2000 kindergartens and 629 institutions for special education located in 60 countries.