Glossary

Teaching Writing and Reading in Anthroposophy

Teaching writing and reading in a Waldorf school reverses the order most schoolrooms take for granted. Writing is built before reading, and both grow out of drawing and painting rather...

Imitation and Example in Anthroposophy

Imitation and Example names the way the very young child takes hold of the world. In the years up to the change of teeth, the child does not follow rules;...

Authority and Reverence in Anthroposophy

Authority and reverence name the way an elementary-school child meets the world. After the change of teeth the child stops imitating and begins to take what it learns on trust,...

The Third Seven Years in Anthroposophy

The Third Seven Years in Anthroposophy is the developmental phase from puberty to about the age of twenty-one, the last of Rudolf Steiner's three seven-year stages of childhood and youth,...

The Change of Teeth in Anthroposophy

The Change of Teeth names the point near a child's seventh birthday when the second teeth replace the first. For Steiner this physical milestone is the visible token of an...

Play and the Young Child in Anthroposophy

Play and the Young Child in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's account of free play as the most serious work of early childhood, the hidden seed from which later initiative and...