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Steiner/Waldorf schools change the world
The first Waldorf school was founded in Stuttgart in 1919. Today there are over 1,100 Waldorf schools and almost 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in some 80 countries around the globe. And more all the time. We are making our Centennial an occasion to further develop Waldorf education for contemporary times, and focus more consciously on its global dimensions. With many exciting projects on all continents. Keep your ears and eyes open, and be part of the movement: 100 years are just the beginning!
Waldorf 100-Products
Waldorf 100 Core Projects
Marathon around the world
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- finished
The marathon around the world was the sports project of Waldorf 100. The idea: pupils, parents and teachers from different Steiner/Waldorf schools run a relay race “with the sun around the world”. In the end different runs took place all around the world. The biggest was the run through Germany, which involved over 160 schools, over 4,000 people, who together covered more than 70,000 km.
Metamorphoses
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Spring 2017 til Spring 2019
"Metamorphoses" was the name of the music project of Waldorf 100 a composition competition. Winner of the composition contest was Chinese composer Haihui Zhang from Manhattan School of Music. The world premiere of her piece "Metamorphoses" took place in 2019 on February 2nd in Hamburg.
Bees & Trees
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- 2017
“The entire beehive is actually permeated with love life,” commented Rudolf Steiner. Waldorf 100 has the aim, to make the earth a place where bees can thrive again.
Postcard Exchange
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Spring 2017
Community to touch, real instead of virtual: In the last three years Waldorf schools all over the world have sent each other colourful postcards. The most amazing postcard artwork, world maps and presentations have been created. In the picture gallery you can see for yourself.
Drama Project “Where is humankind?”
- Place:
- world-wide
- Initiator:
- Waldorf 100
- Start:
- Beginning 2017
In cooperation with leading modern artists, this drama project aspires to create a dramatic work for high school students that can be staged by all schools.
News
Waldorf 100 Congresses
Many international congresses in the anniversary year 2019 were dedicated to various educational issues and focused on the future of Waldorf Schools. How can Waldorf Education renew itself and still remain true to its roots in order to start the next century with strength? How can the general humanity of the pupils be strengthened in order to accompany them on their way to mature, self-determined adults who can change the world?
We will keep you up to date about planned congresses in our calendar.
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Janis McDavid
(Copyright: Katy Otto) You can talk about Waldorf school and think what you want. I am happy to have enjoyed exactly this education and to have learned such different things. Especially in today's world, I have quickly experienced the value of how important it is to become a personality at school, a person with social and...
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Karoline Eichhorn
(Copyright: Heike Blenk) So then, what was school for me? What was it that accompanied, supported and promoted me for 13 years?
I think it was the opportunity to develop as an individual and without any pressure. When I talk to my friends from back then - who by the way are still my friends today - about our school days,...
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Thomas Christian Südhof
When my family moved to Hanover, I attended the Waldorf School there from the 2nd grade until high school graduation. Afterwards I studied medicine and later pursued a career as a scientist, which soon led me to the USA, where I have lived for almost 40 years now. I like to recall my time as a...
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Moritz Rinke
Photo: Rowohlt Verlag "A few days ago I spoke on the phone with my former English teacher from the Waldorf School in Ottersberg, who also supervised and directed the theatrical performances at the school, for example our 8th grade class play. In the meantime, she must be around 90 and had spontaneously grabbed the phone...
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Samuel Weiss
When I think of the Waldorf School, I always first think of Joseph Beuys' sentence: "Where have they actually remained, the Waldorf students? All those special people who change the world?" I then always feel that first of all I have this obligation, this burden, to be special. Until now, however, I...
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Josefina Elsler
I'm one of those people who likes to look back on their school days. I am really glad I had the privilege of experiencing a Waldorf education for 13 years plus kindergarten. The Waldorf approach has many characteristics that shape the learning and development of children in a special way. I am...
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