The first Waldorf school opened on 7 September 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany, as a school for the children of workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. Rudolf Steiner developed and directed its anthroposophy-based pedagogy while factory director Emil Molt supplied the funding, buildings and first pupils, a genuinely shared founding. It became the model for the worldwide Waldorf school movement, which grew to seventeen schools within fourteen years.
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Steiner founded and directed the pedagogy; factory director Emil Molt provided funding, buildings and the first pupils, so the founding is genuinely shared between the two.
Source Waldorf 100, The History of Waldorf Schools
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After its founding in Stuttgart-Uhlandshoehe in September 1919, the first Waldorf school grew rapidly.
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After its founding in Stuttgart-Uhlandshöhe in September 1919, the first Waldorf school grew rapidly.
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The children of workers at the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company came in response to the initiative of founders Emil and Berta Molt.
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The Waldorf education movement, with about 1,100 schools and over 2,000 kindergartens around the globe, has become the largest free school movement in the world.
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The first school based upon the ideas of Rudolf Steiner was opened in 1919
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