Rudolf Steiner Library Accommodates Sleuths from the Research Institute David Mitchell
72 · Reports from Current Projects of the Research Institute Rudolf Steiner Library Accommodates Sleuths from the Research Institute David Mitchell n autumn 2005, the Research Institute for Johannes Stein, Rudolf Treichler, and, of course, Waldorf Education received a grant from the Rudolf Steiner himself, had written on a variety of IWaldorf Curriculum Fund. The grant funded a topics. visit to the Rudolf Steiner Library in Ghent, New There were exclamations of glee and uncon- York, to research its archives in order to discover tained excitement every time one of the pair materials of interest to Waldorf teachers, materi- found something new or unusual to share with als that might exist in old periodicals, journals, the other. It was a rich time and altogether more and newsletters. In short, this was an invitation than 60 articles were collected and passed on to to participate in an intellectual treasure hunt. the online Waldorf library (OWL), found at The Research Institute Board of Trustees www.waldorflibrary.org, for posting and free asked two stalwart buccaneers, Roberto Trostli downloading by English-speaking teachers world- and David Mitchell, to undertake the challenge of wide. The surface has been scratched and the this treasure hunt. Two months later, with a hope is that the team can return at a later date gleam in their eyes, they arose at dawn and set for the next phase of exploration. out on a grey November New England morning. An unexpected find was an educational book They soon became engaged in a conversation so by Rudolf Steiner that has not been translated deep that the two-hour drive seemed to last five into English, Erziehung zum Leben: Selbsterziehung minutes.
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