Reverie
1 min readJul 6, 2020

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Hmmm definitely sounds like Rudolph Steiner was a racist and that the Steiner school you attended was cult like.

However I attended a Steiner school in the last two years of primary school, and I didn’t have that experience. It was an Australian school in the Blue Mountains, and it had quite diverse students (quite a few aboriginal students for example), and the folklore we learned really honoured all sorts of cultures, from learning about the Dreamtime and learning to appreciate Indigenous culture, bushwalking everyday, to learning about Norse mythology, Wicca, Asian folklore etc, it was very much focusing on appreciating stories, songs and art from all over the world. Maybe that goes to show that it depends where in the world the school is and who is running it. Our school was very small so probably had a lot of influence from the small team of teachers and families that ran it. Rather than it being true to the original racist vision of Rudolph Steiner. I certainly didn’t come away with a white supremacist ideology. I enjoyed my time there, though it’s not a utopian perfect system either, kids growing up among art and stories can still be bullies.

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