Rudolf Steiner is the founder of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Germany. Steiner wanted to make the school to teach children to become whole human beings who have a healthy body, soul and spirit, so they would be able to find their purpose of life and pursue it positively among the community. Steiner wrote that Whoever seeks higher knowledge must create it for himself. He must instill it into his soul. It cannot be done by study; it can only be done through life. Whoever, therefore, wishes to become a student of higher knowledge must assiduously cultivate this inner life of devotion. Everywhere in his environment and his experiences he must seek motives of admiration and homage (Seddon, 2004, p.16).
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At eighteen of the age, Steiner studied Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History at the Technical University in Vienna. After the graduation, Steiner wrote scientific articles and published “A Theory of Knowledge,” about the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German novelist and poet, while being a tutor. At age thirty, Steiner obtained Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Rostock, Germany, His doctoral dissertation was about the epistemology through the work of Johann Fichte, the German philosopher. This thesis later became a foundation of anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy that reflects to the human development. Steiner believed the spiritual world since his childhood. When he was nine, he experienced seeing the spiritual figure of his dead aunt. Since then he started to believe in spirituality, and later he was trained to have an ability of spiritual clairvoyance. From 1890 to 1897, Steiner worked to edit the Goethe and Schiller archives in Weimar, Germany. He moved to Berlin after, then he published and edited the magazine for Literature in 1897 to 1900. During this time, Steiner was active by giving lectures and teaching about science, history, literature, and the art of speaking. By the early twentieth century, Steiner became well-known as a scholar and cultural personality. Around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, his interest on spirituality and human development started to emerge. Steiner believed that humans become free-will through the physical and the spiritual experiences. Steiner also studied about theosophy. He wanted to connect theosophy and the natural science, and also he connected the spiritual idea that he had strongly believed. Finally, Steiner developed anthroposophy, spiritual science, a philosophy that refers to spiritual knowledge gained by the conscious
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At eighteen of the age, Steiner studied Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History at the Technical University in Vienna. After the graduation, Steiner wrote scientific articles and published “A Theory of Knowledge,” about the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German novelist and poet, while being a tutor. At age thirty, Steiner obtained Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Rostock, Germany, His doctoral dissertation was about the epistemology through the work of Johann Fichte, the German philosopher. This thesis later became a foundation of anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy that reflects to the human development. Steiner believed the spiritual world since his childhood. When he was nine, he experienced seeing the spiritual figure of his dead aunt. Since then he started to believe in spirituality, and later he was trained to have an ability of spiritual clairvoyance. From 1890 to 1897, Steiner worked to edit the Goethe and Schiller archives in Weimar, Germany. He moved to Berlin after, then he published and edited the magazine for Literature in 1897 to 1900. During this time, Steiner was active by giving lectures and teaching about science, history, literature, and the art of speaking. By the early twentieth century, Steiner became well-known as a scholar and cultural personality. Around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, his interest on spirituality and human development started to emerge. Steiner believed that humans become free-will through the physical and the spiritual experiences. Steiner also studied about theosophy. He wanted to connect theosophy and the natural science, and also he connected the spiritual idea that he had strongly believed. Finally, Steiner developed anthroposophy, spiritual science, a philosophy that refers to spiritual knowledge gained by the conscious