Glossary
The Art of Education in Anthroposophy
The Art of Education is Rudolf Steiner's term for teaching that works like a creative art rather than a technique. The teacher reads the changing inner nature of the child...
The First Seven Years in Anthroposophy
The first seven years name the opening stretch of life, from birth to the falling of the milk teeth, in which Steiner saw the child as one continuous organ of...
The Three Seven-Year Periods in Anthroposophy
The Three Seven-Year Periods are Rudolf Steiner's map of the two decades between birth and the early twenties, divided into three spans of roughly seven years. Each span carries a...
The Study of Man in Anthroposophy
The Study of Man is the spiritual anthropology Rudolf Steiner gave the first Waldorf teachers in fourteen lectures at Stuttgart in late August and early September 1919. It asks who...
The Second Seven Years in Anthroposophy
The Second Seven Years is Rudolf Steiner's term for the elementary phase of childhood, the years between the change of teeth near age seven and puberty near age fourteen. Where...
The Human as Microcosm in Anthroposophy
The Human as Microcosm is Rudolf Steiner's name for the upright human form as a Little World that holds the whole animal kingdom in quiet balance. Where the eagle is...