ELSE GOTTGENS...

Reader submitted photos are welcome. If you have pictures to add to these galleries (especially Else in a classroom/school environment),
please send copies (as attachments) to waldorfinpractice@gmail.com. See here for more pictures...

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More on the Front Cover illustration of  WALDORF EDUCATION IN PRACTICE

Why a Waterfall? Just as every water droplet perpetually travels and transforms through the majestic water cycle, so do we!  As teachers, we have a privileged moment with such droplets as they joyfully cascade through our classrooms; may we be among the “good spirits” they encounter on their dance which Goethe describes so well...

Behold this rocky spring,
bright with joy
like a twinkling star;
above the clouds
its youth was nourished
by good spirits
’tween the boulders in the bushes.
Fresh as a youth
it dances out of the cloud
down to the marble rocks,
cheering again
to the sky…

From Mahomet’s Song,
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(See end of book for the complete poem)

The waterfall painting adorning the front cover of this first edition was especially created by Leo Klein - artist, long-time acquaintance and dear friend to the author.

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More on the illustrations found in WALDORF EDUCATION IN PRACTICE

The numerous pencil drawings found in Waldorf Education in Practice were specially drawn for the book by Paul Van Meurs.  Paul is an experienced class teacher and has also been a teacher mentor for many years. He is now a full-time pedagogical consultant and advisor to Waldorf Schools in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.