An Introduction to Waldorf Education

An Introduction to Waldorf Education

About the Author

Henry Barnes (1912–2008) was born in New York City, attended the Lincoln School of Teachers’ College, and took his B.S. from Harvard College in 1933, going on to Waldorf teacher training in Stuttgart. He taught at Michael Hall in England and, from 1940, at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, where he was a class teacher, high school history teacher, and faculty chairperson until 1977. From 1974 to 1991 he served as general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America. He was the author of A Life for the Spirit: Rudolf Steiner in the Crosscurrents of Our Time (1997), Percy MacKaye: Poet of Old Worlds and New (2000), and Into the Heart’s Land (2005).