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 2021!
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In the midst of so much social and political upheaval, and an intensifying pandemic, we have one smile for today. It’s the 50th Anniversary of Berkshire Waldorf School – our birthday! Rudolf Steiner founded Waldorf education in Stuttgart, Germany in 1919. At a low point of hope for the human race, after the “war to […]
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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