By John Lewis Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral. While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated [...]

A Unique Aspect of Waldorf Education: The Governance Council Introduces Distance Learning One of Rudolf Steiner’s insights for us as teachers is that what we remember and what we know or come to understand are two fundamentally different human processes. This means that if we wish to educate young people so that they come to know, it must happen by a different process than how we ask them to remember. Of course these two processes overlap and interact, and both are necessary in educational practice. However, [...]

Instead of rote learning useless facts, children should be taught well-being: To equip young people to face the challenges of the 21st century, they need to understand their minds and bodies By Alice O’Keeffe In his treatise on the future of humanity, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari offers the young people of today some advice. In order to survive and thrive in adulthood, they should not rely on traditional academic skills such as solving equations or learning computer code. These [...]