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298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the end of the second school year 11 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
Similarly, if you did not pay attention, you will understand nothing of life, and then your whole life will be like a sun with a big cloud in front of it that covers the whole world with hailstones.
You can be certain, ladies and gentlemen, that when you as parents strive toward this agreement and express it in the right way, harmoniously and with fellowfeeling, as you did just now, our teachers then feel that they have solid ground under their feet, regardless of whatever opposition and enmity they may encounter from other directions.
With the best forces you have rooted in you, you try to understand the souls of growing human beings and to work on these souls, not in the sense of a school promoting a single philosophy, but in the sense of permeating an entire system of education with a thoroughly spiritualized attitude.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the first official members’ meeting of the Independent Waldorf School Association 17 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

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In addition, the faculty first had to come to a common understanding of what our task would have to become as we got into the details of pedagogical and methodological activity.
But we need to be sensitive to the fact that a lesson requires presence of mind and should therefore under no circumstances be subjected to visitation unless there is some urgent need. I believe, therefore, that it is also the view of the other members of the college that the most we can allow is for you to see the classrooms, and even this would be burdensome at the moment.
Because of a ruling on the laws governing primary schools, the Waldorf School had to reapply for approval in the fall of 1920. This was granted under the proviso that starting in the 1922/23 school year it, like other private schools, was not to admit a new first grade and would have to decrease the number of students in the first four grades.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the beginning of the third school year 18 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
That is when other spiritual beings are awake. This is something you cannot understand yet. (That is why you have to go to school—to learn to understand things that you do not understand now.)
In the Waldorf School you are meant to become devout children, children who know that people also have something inside them that we cannot see. And as I said, even though you may not have understood very much of this now, that is why you are coming to the Waldorf School, where you will learn to understand it.
In acting in this way, we understand what we must do so that humanity can progress from this age of great misery to different age. We understand what can come of wanting to have our young people led with understanding.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the foundation-stone laying of the Waldorf School’s new building 16 Dec 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

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That Emil Molt was able to conceive this idea out of his feeling for these great issues of our times will never be forgotten and will always be given due recognition wherever people have any understanding of such needs of humanity and of the great impulses of human evolution in general. In order to inscribe it on your hearts, dear children, dear students, I must also recall the people who have decided to form this school’s first faculty.
The foundation stone containing the verse was well protected under the main entry. The original building, which had been acquired and remodeled by Emil Molt, was not damaged.
This Association was to awaken a feeling for independent spiritual life in the broadest possible circles and to create as quickly as possible the means for establishing schools independent of the state, wherever this was still possible under national laws. When people later set out to make the Association a reality, Rudolf Steiner said that the time in which an independent spiritual life could have been initiated was over.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address and discussion at a parents' evening 09 May 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
At an earlier parents’ meeting I was able to attend, I pointed out that simply because we are striving for an independent school system, we are dependent on being met with understanding, profound understanding, on the part of the parents. If we have this understanding, we will be able to work properly, and perhaps we will also be able after all to show the true value of what is intended with the Waldorf School.
Just think of how different your situation is from other people’s with regard to understanding the Waldorf system of education. Other people have to make an effort to understand when we tell them we want to do things in a certain way because we believe it is the only right way.
Some people may have the feeling that I have been too radical in my choice of some of the things I have pointed out today, but I hope to have been understood on some of these points. I especially hope that I have not been understood merely on details. I would like to be understood on the farreaching issue of our need to be in cordial harmony with the parent body if we are to function effectively in the Waldorf School.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the beginning of the fourth school year 20 Jun 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

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You are meant to feel your way into what is really there in a human being. You must learn to understand that people have to learn by working, because if they do not, they cannot be real human beings.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the second official members’ meeting of the Independent Waldorf School Association 20 Jun 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
It is a remarkable fact that this year’s Shakespeare festival in Stratford actually took place under the auspices of educational issues. You know that I myself had to give lectures at this festival, and that the event stood fully under the sign of educational issues.
I have often stated that I am convinced that if twelve people or some other number of people would get together to undertake to establish an agenda for educating children in the best way, something extremely clever would come out of it.
Something must first be done to shape public opinion so that more extensive work can be undertaken. Then it will be possible to do many things. But as long as what is growing on our grounds remains the secret of the members, we will not be able to move on.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the monthly assembly after the burning of the Goetheanum! 01 Mar 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

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You would have walked right by those pictures without understanding them at all. My dear friend, we must so often think back to how school gave us what makes life pleasurable and valuable.”
And while they were lying there driving their tiredness away, one of them grew very uplifted and happy inside, and said, “Oh, Nature is so beautiful; there is so much to find in Nature. But you know, we can understand Nature better and better all the time. If we learned to imitate Nature in the poems we say, for instance.”
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at the assembly at the beginning of the fifth school year 24 Apr 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner
I want you to inscribe that in your understanding and your feeling, and also in your conscience. Just think of how deepseated that will be later on in life if it is inscribed in your understanding, your heart, and your conscience.
But the last few days reminded you of humanity’s greatest benefactor, of the One who underwent suffering and death nearly two thousand years ago out of love for humanity, who gave the spirit to humanity through His resurrection.
It will be the greatest possible satisfaction for us if those who look at what we are doing with understanding are satisfied that we are striving to turn children of God into citizens of earth.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at a monthly assembly 03 May 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

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And the calf and the bee were talking together. The bee said, “Calf, you don't understand anything about plants, but I know all about them. I know which plants are sweet, and those are the ones I suck the honey out of.
And then the child with the bouquet of sweet flowers understood that there was something he had to learn. The other child had already learned the right thing from her dream. The child with the sweet flowers now understood that sweet flowers cannot be the only ones, that there have to be all different kinds of flowers that work together, and so now he learned to love the bouquet with all the different plants in it.

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