Waldorf School of Pittsburgh

Waldorf Education

Rudolf Steiner described his collected teachings as the knowledge of the true nature of the human being. He founded the first Waldorf School in response to a question put to him by benefactor Emil Molt:
Is there a way to educate children that will help them develop into human beings who will be capable of bringing peace to the world?

There are now over 900 Waldorf schools in over eighty eighty countries that provide educational programs true to Steiner and Molts vision schools that include activities for the hands as well as the mind balancing physical aesthetic and emotional development along with the intellectual and serving the exact same explicit mission described by Ronald Koetzsch Ph.D. as
to help children become creative independent moral individuals able of themselves to impart meaning and purpose to their lives.

Waldorf School of Pittsburgh

We are proud to bring the Waldorf mission to Pittsburgh. By educating the whole child head heart and hand toward the three ideals of truth beauty and goodness. These three ideals taken together set the standard of education at our School answering Steiners call:
. imagination a sense of truth and a feeling of responsibility these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Our aim is to develop a balance of intellectual achievement spiritual growth physical health and personal responsibility which is based on a profound understanding of the process of human development and so each subject is introduced to the child when he or she is most ready for it and in a manner to which the child is naturally receptive at that stage and year by year.

The content of the curriculum expands with the ever-growing powers of the child nourishing the inner life through stories from fairy tales legends myths and history and the outer life with the development of individual and social skills which we believe lays the foundation for a truly healthy adult by developing the childs wonder and sense of beauty in the world of nature and in all humanity.

Child Ages:

6 weeks - 12 years

Licenses & Accreditations:

Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

Vouchers:

This provider accepts vouchers

Preschool:

Yes