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Voted Best School in the Berkshires for the seventh consecutive year, Berkshire Waldorf School provides a vibrant liberal arts education for toddlers through 8th grade. Join families from Berkshire, Columbia and northern Litchfield counties as we celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary in 2021. Spots still available for Fall 2020!
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Imbue yourself with the power of imagination, Have courage for the truth, Sharpen your feeling for the responsibility of the soul. Rudolf Steiner inspired the first Waldorf teachers with this verse over 100 years ago, and it’s helping our teachers stay true to Waldorf education values—even while they adapt to the sudden and dramatic challenge […]
Berkshire Waldorf School is one of over 1,000 Waldorf schools, a worldwide movement of independent schools founded in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner. In accordance with Steiner’s insights into the nature of human beings and the developmental stages of childhood, the Waldorf curriculum fosters each child’s natural curiosity, presenting material to appeal to the imagination as well as to the intellect. Care is taken to balance intellectual growth with emotional growth and development of a capable will. Lessons are rooted in experience rather than presented as merely abstract concepts; a botany lesson, for example, begins not with a textbook, but with a close look at a living plant.
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35 West Plain Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Telephone: (413) 528-4015
Fax: (413) 240-3246
Email: info@berkshirewaldorfschool.org
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