Waldorf Education is based upon the educational philosophy founded by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner in learning interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements. It is a unique approach to educating children that is the major practice in Waldorf schools worldwide. The first Waldorf School was founded in 1919 to the children of employees at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart.
Waldorf schools collectively form the largest, and quite possibly the fastest growing, group of independent private schools in the world. There is no centralized administrative structure governing all Waldorf schools; each is administratively independent, but there are established associations which provide resources, publish materials, sponsor conferences, and promote the movement.
They spent an approach emphasizes the role of the imagination, developing thinking capabilities that includes a creative as well as an analytic component. They have the goals to provide young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral and integrated individuals and to improve every child to fulfill his unique destiny, the existence of which anthroposophy posits. The students have given considerable freedom by the teachers and school to define curricula within collegial structures.
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