RHYTHMS OF LEARNING. Selected Lectures By Rudolf Steiner. What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers. Edited And Introduced By Roberto Trostli

pink, red & b/w photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. xxxi+364p.+ author bio notes. further reading. bibliography. index. education. philosophy. pedagogy. psychology. anthroposophy. waldorf education. ~ Waldorf education, which began with a single school in 1919, has in eighty years become the fastest growing independent school movement in the world, encompassing over 500 schools world~wide and more than 120 schools in the United States. In each section of Rhythms Of Learning, Roberto Trostli introduces the reader to Rudolf Steiner's lectures on specific aspects of the child's rhythm of development, and to the ways that Waldorf education responds to the child at each stage of growth. We are shown how Waldorf teachers must, through their own inner capacities and awareness, learn to recognize and meet each new stage of development in children as they unfold new capacities of body, soul, and spirit. Waldorf education is not based on pre~set methods and curricula, but depends on the creativity and spiritual development of the teachers themselves, who must respond spontaneously to each child and situation anew. When children relate what they learn to their own experiences, they are interested and alive, and what they learn becomes their own. Waldorf schools are designed to foster this kind of learning. Parents around the world can see in their children the results of an education that considers the whole child as body, soul, and spirit.…