Steiner schools aren’t cranky – we develop heart, head and soul | Letters

Readers respond to Zoe Williams’ article about Steiner schools and the free school agenda

Zoe Williams (These Steiner ‘failures’ are really a failure of the free school agenda, theguardian.com, 18 January) is wrong to imply that Steiner schools endorse the sometimes odious views of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner himself argued against this. This misconception is as ridiculous as saying that Britain’s most esteemed schools still promote the views of founders who may have traded slaves or opposed votes for women.

Steiner schools attract a diverse group of parents who are highly committed to their children’s learning because they use an understanding of child development to first build learning capacity and then accelerate academic leaning. These principles are not a “hippy cocktail” and have stood the test of time since the opening of the first Steiner school.

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