What is education?

I have worked in education for 25 years (since I graduated from college and throughout grad school). I currently have three jobs (well, they're more than just jobs) in education--teaching and administering in the Great Barrington Waldorf high school, which I co-founded in 2002; teaching and advising theses for graduate students in education at Sunbridge College, NY; and editing the Research Bulletin for Waldorf Education. I think about education a lot. I write about it--sometimes for scholarly publications, and sometimes for school newsletters.

Not everything I think and write suits these venues, however, and there has been nowhere, other than my mind and my conversations with others, that my "network of enterprises" has a focus. This blog is one attempt to synthesize and focus these disparate activities. If anything here catches your interest, I'd be pleased to hear about it and exchange views.

Also, although my jobs all involve a relationship to Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Education, I am interested in education in the broadest sense, not in a narrow, cloistered, or sectarian version of it. When I read Rudolf Steiner on education, it's clear to me that he speaks of the development and education of all children, not those whose parents can afford and would choose an alternative independent school for them.