Current Social and Economic Issues

GA 332b — 25 September 1919, Stuttgart

The Cultural Council and the School System

Rudolf Steiner's request to speak at a teachers' conference, Protocol Record

If the Cultural Council worked properly, it would replace these terrible establishments with reason, and everything would be better. Then you could also teach sensible astronomy. But you cannot stand up to brutal power. The Cultural Council could do what should have been done from the beginning: really take up its program and work towards taking over the entire school system. The Waldorf School is set up as a prime example. But it can't do anything about the brutal power. The cultural council would have the task of transforming the entire education system. If we had ten million, we could expand the Waldorf School. These are just “small obstacles,” this lack of ten million.

Rudolf Steiner's notebook entry, between December 26 and 29, 1919.

Cultural Council = members do not attend.