Chicago Waldorf School
Chicago Waldorf School Soundex Code S420
Website: Chicago Waldorf School
Listed in: Rogers Park 2016, pages 31, 35.
This Waldorf method of learning by doing was pioneered by Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner in the early 20th Century. Steiner believed in creating a more humanistic approach to education — as opposed to the parochial systems that were common in Europe at the time — in the wake of the loss of humanity in World War I.
The first Waldorf school started in 1919 in Germany, and today there are more than 1,000 independent schools across the globe following the educational philosophy.
The Waldorf school in Chicago opened in 1974 with a single kindergarten class. It has since become a full kindergarten-through-high school program, with many of its 350 students attending all of primary and secondary school in the same program.
