Press release No. 364 of 18 September 2019
- For the first time more than 7,000 school beginners at Free Waldorf schools
- Number of Waldorf pedagogy students increased, too
WIESBADEN – In 2018, the number of school beginners at Free Waldorf schools in Germany was higher than ever before. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that last school year a total 7,041 pupils started school at Free Waldorf schools. The year before, the figure was 6,599, while in 1992 it was just 5,175. One hundred years ago, in September 1919, the company school of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart started operating. The Waldorf schools were named after it. Its teachers received pedagogical training from Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy.
