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Author : Steiner Rudolf
Title : Faculty meetings with Rudolf Steiner Volume 1 and 2
Year : 1919-1922

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Preface to the 1975 German Edition. Erich Gabert and Hans Rudolf Niederhäuser. As leader of the Waldorf School, Rudolf Steiner held seventy meetings with the faculty. The first meeting, on September 8, 1919, was one day after the festive opening of the school, and the final meeting took place September 3, 1924. Except for September 25 and 26, 1919, there was no stenographer. Most of what we have today from these meetings we owe to Dr. Karl Schubert’s note taking. Only short notes exist from the period before he joined the faculty in the summer of 1920. As the faculty grew, more and more members took notes that add to those of Schubert. Since discussions can never be recorded as completely or precisely as lectures can be, the notes all have a very fragmented quality. The editors’ task was to position the fragments so that they support one another, thus giving the most complete picture as possible. The reader will need to participate actively in making a truly living picture from this information. The exact text is often uncertain. Only when Rudolf Steiner gave a longer, connected perspective, or when several sets of notes exist, can we view the text as relatively authentic. The first copies of the meeting notes were given to Waldorf teachers beginning in the 1930s. Those booklets have long been out of print. ...