About Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was a man with Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator and social thinker.

He is the founder of Anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world accessible to pure thought through a path of self-development, and many of its practical applications, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine and new artistic impulses, especially eurythmy.

Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he brought an explicitly spiritual component.

Steiner employed the best traditions of Dominican academic disciplines, of Franciscan compassion for man and veneration for the natural world, and Cistercian devotion to artistic principles and imbued each of the three education streams with direct spiritual knowledge. His insights into the development of the child have been found to be endlessly fruitful over 70 years of Steiner education.