We love Waldorf kids. We reject some students with 1600s on their SATs and accept others based on other factors, like the creative ability Waldorf students demonstrate.

Donna Badrig
Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions for Columbia University

The Waldorf approach is to a remarkable degree in harmony with recent developments in the cognitive sciences related to how children learn and understand

Dr. Paul DeHart Hurd, Professor Emeritus
Science Education, Stanford University

Waldorf students are encouraged to live with self-assurance, a reverence for life and a sense of service.

Ernest Boyer, President
Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, Former U.S. Commissioner of Education

If you've had the experience of binding a book, knitting a sock, playing a recorder, then you feel that you can build a rocket ship-or learn a software program you've never touched. It's not bravado, just a quiet confidence. There is nothing you can't do. Why couldn't you? Why couldn't anybody?

Peter Nitze, Waldorf and Harvard graduate
Executive Vice President of Martek Biosciences Corp

I think that it is not exaggerated to say that no other educational system in the world gives such a central role to the arts as the Waldorf School Movement. There is not a subject taught that does not have an artistic aspect. Even mathematics is presented in an artistic fashion and related via dance, movement or drawing to the child as a whole. Steiner's system of education is built on the premise that art is an integral part of human endeavors. He gives it back its true role. Anything that can be done to further his revolutionary educational ideals will be of the greatest importance.

Konrad Oberhuber
Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum - Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University

American schools are having a crisis in values. Half the children fail according to standard measures and the other half wonder why they are learning what they do. As is appropriate to life in a democracy, there are a handful of alternatives. Among the alternatives, the Waldorf school represents a chance for every child to grow and learn according to the most natural rhythms of life. For the early school child, this means a non-competitive, non-combative environment in which the wonders of science and literature fill the day without causing anxiety and confusion. For the older child, it offers a curriculum that addresses the question of why they are learning. I have sent two of my children to Waldorf schools and they have been wonderfully well served.

Raymond McDermott, Ph.D.
Professor of Education and Anthropology, Stanford University

American schools are having a crisis in values. Half the children fail according to standard measures and the other half wonder why they are learning what they do. As is appropriate to life in a democracy, there are a handful of alternatives. Among the alternatives, the Waldorf school represents a chance for every child to grow and learn according to the most natural rhythms of life. For the early school child, this means a non-competitive, non-combative environment in which the wonders of science and literature fill the day without causing anxiety and confusion. For the older child, it offers a curriculum that addresses the question of why they are learning. I have sent two of my children to Waldorf schools and they have been wonderfully well served.

Raymond McDermott, Ph.D.
Professor of Education and Anthropology, Stanford University

Programs such as Montessori and the Waldorf Schools offer small classes, individualized instruction, and flexible, child-centered curricula which can accommodate the child and do not demand that the child do all of the accommodating . . . Rudolf Steiner was troubled by the overly academic emphasis of schools; he felt that the aesthetic side of children was being overlooked and that this should be developed along with the intellectual powers. Waldorf schools emphasize creativity in all aspects of children's work. The same teacher may stay with the same group of children for as many as eight grades. In so doing the teacher has to grow and learn with the children.

From Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk David Elkind, Ph.D., Professor of Child Study, Tufts University
Author, The Hurried Child, All Grown Up and No Place to Go; Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk