English Issue 21/2025

Everything new begins inconspicuously. Yet, when we look back after the new thing takes root and bears fruit, something of this powerful spirit is felt in retrospect at its birth. Everyone whose moment of falling in love turned into a new life path, a family, knows this. It’s a contradiction that runs through Steiner’s founding of Waldorf education. Ostensibly, it was about a school for the children of the workers in the cigar factory, and at the same time, secretly and without any pretense, it was about a new school for the whole world. In some way, each and every one of the 40,000 Waldorf teachers around the world carries this contradiction in their hearts: it is about this one class, about this one lesson, and it is about all children everywhere. In May, the month of joy, may you, dear reader, also feel this newness in your soul—inconspicuous and immensely powerful!