About the Author

GILBERT CHILDS 
attended the Steiner teacher training course at Michael Hall 
after war service. He later studied at four universities, 
his doctoral thesis being entitled "Steiner Education as 
Historical Necessity". After teaching at State and Steiner 
schools he spent twenty years as a tutor in a further education 
college for severely physically disabled students. 
He is, in retirement, a full-time author and keen gardener. 
His published works include Understand YOUR Temperament!, 
The Journey Continues... and Your Reincarnating Child.

Truth, Beauty and Goodness
  Steiner-Waldorf Education As a Demand of Our Time, 
 an Esoteric Study 
Rudolf Steiner argued that the primary function of education is to 
exercise pupils' faculties of thinking, feeling and willing. 
These basic human qualities manifest in civilization as the 
"eternal verities" of truth, beauty and goodness, and these 
in turn in science, art and religion. Gilbert Childs' aim in this 
carefully crafted book is twofold: to illustrate the practical 
application of the above nine factors, and to substantiate 
the assertion by Rudolf Steiner that his philosophy and 
practice of education arose as a demand of the age in 
which we are living. The author's presentation provides 
stimulating thoughts for teachers and students of education, 
as well as anybody interested in esoteric science.

150 pages

Paperback – June, 1999