Rudolf Steiner Quotes about Children

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

Children, Reverence, Educate

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

Rudolf Steiner

Art, Children, Mind

If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.

Rudolf Steiner

Children, Giving Up, Play

Rudolf Steiner (1988). “Education as an Art”, p.96, SteinerBooks

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

Rudolf Steiner

Teacher, Children, Lying

Rudolf Steiner, Roberto Trostli (1998). “Rhythms of Learning: What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers”, p.44, SteinerBooks