'As an educator and a parent, I found A. C. Harwood's description of Waldorf education extraordinarily helpful, crystal clear and full of insight. The high imaginative approach to teaching and learning so conceretely spelled out here counters aggressive and reductionistic methods common today, as it offers a realistic but loving attitude toward children and childhood. I wish all educators would read it, not to be converted but to be enlightened.' -- Thomas Moore, Psychotherapist and author of Care of the Soul and other books 'Cecil Harwood provides a now classic exposition of Waldorf education. Since its founding in 1919, this important educational movement has found no better spokesperson than Harwood. His treatment of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy of education is masterful, and his own insights into the growing child are profound.

I recommend this book unreservedly to both educators and parents.' -- Arthur Zajonc 'A. C. Harwood's writing is clear, his presentation of Steiner's insights, specific. Yet more, he quickens the imagination of the attentive reader to envision the world, and the possibilities for education, anew.' -- Jeffrey Kane.