Waldorf education
![Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent, NYMichael Hall School, Forest Row, Sussex, UK](/Images/godic/202502/20/Hawthorne_Valley_Waldorf_School,_Ghent,_NY2510.jpg")
![](/Images/godic/202502/20/lossy-page1-287px-Michael_Hall_cropped.tif2510.jpg")
![Rudolf Steiner](/Images/godic/202502/20/Steiner_um_19052510.jpg")
![Growth in the number of accredited Waldorf schools from 1919 to 2014[13]](/Images/godic/202502/20/Growth_of_Waldorf_Schools_Worldwide_without_annotation2510.png")
Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy. Its pedagogy emphasizes the role of imagination in learning, striving to integrate holistically the intellectual, practical, and artistic development of pupils.