Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America

by Mary C. Richards

Book Overview

A fascinating study about a uniquely artistic individual.

For Rudolf Steiner, life can be truly understood only if it is experienced as art is experienced, as inner activities expressed through physical materials. On this ground of the union of inner experience and sensory life, he developed his unique, holistic approach to education. Richards views Steiner schools as expressing a new educational consciousness appropriate for our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819560626
• ISBN13: 9780819560629
• Release Date: July 1980
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

An inspiring and complete view of this exciting movement.

My copy of this book is underlined, notated and thumbed. Mary Richards writes in the voice of a poet, often dreamily, of the gentle art of education Rudolf Steiner style. I've put Steiner theories to work successfully--but not in a dogmatic way--in a home-school setting, with small mixed-age groups of home schoolers. If we could summarize the book in a few words, we might say this: children learn through their bodies and minds and hearts what they cannot conceive of through their brains. Clearly, the brilliant M.C. Richards is an intellectual, yet Steiner education is distinctly down to earth (one could call it biodynamics of the mind) and concrete. Highly recommend for anyone interested in the way children learn. Also the reader benefits from Richards' vast experience living in Steiner communities. Includes history of this astonishing movement. Amazing that such a way of life exists in the nineties in America!