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One hundred years ago on 4 September 2019, the first Steiner Waldorf School opened in Stuttgart, Germany. Rudolf Steiner had been lecturing to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria cigarette factory, and its owner, Emil Moult, asked for a school for their children to be non-denominational and fully integrated. It is from this origin that the term Waldorf arises and is used interchangeably, or together with, Steiner to describe the education movement founded by Rudolf Steiner.
STEINER AND HIS PIONEERS
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was born in Kraljevec, now Croatia. He was intensely awake to nature and was convinced of the reality of an inner life. He studied science and the classics, and tutored pupils in the humanities. Philosophy, science, literature and the arts were his principal interests, and he gained his doctorate in philosophy.
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