The education system is also known as Steiner education and its imagination, practical and intellectual role in the development of students. This type of education became widely known in the UK due to his speeches at Oxford University. He opened the school to educate the children whose parents worked in the cigarette factory. The first school was opened in 1919 in Stuttgart and it slowly spread to the UK and then in the US which is presently called Michael hall school and Rudolf Steiner school. At present, there are over a 1000 independent Waldorf schools over the world.
Albert Einstein
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Charles I in Three Positions, also known as the Triple portrait of Charles I, is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, showing the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. [more]
Einstein receiving the Noble Prize
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Einstein becoming American
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
The Humboldt University
The Humboldt university of Berlin is one of the oldest universities in Berlin. It was founded in the year 1810. The model on which the school worked influenced other universities in Europe and the Western world. The university also had some very famous students attending and studying there, from Karl Marx to Otto von Bismarck and Albert Einstein to Max Planck. Its founder was Wilhelm von Humboldt. Its model was a combination of research and studying.
Max Planck
Max Planck or Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He studies at the university of Berlin and his teacher's name was Kirchhoff. He was then promoted to associate professor and in 1889, he became the professor after Kirchhoff retires. He then became the president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the year 1937. In the year 1926, he was elected to the foreign membership of the Royal Society. He married twice but sadly one of his wives was executed due to his involvement in a failed assassination of Adolf Hitler in 1944. Max Planck just like Albert Einstein liked playing music. He played the piano. Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his discovery in thermodynamics. In 1920, he established the Emergency Organization of German Science which would raise money for scientific research and in 1930, he became a member of the German people's party which was Gustav stresemann's party
Robert Havemann
He was a chemist. He studies chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933. He was one of the founders of the resistance group European Union in 1932. He was later caught by the Gestapo and received a death sentence in 1943 but it was postponed many times by his friends due to his work in chemical weapons for WW2. In January 1950, he became the president of the Humboldt University and in 1959, he won GDR national prize. He was also the member of the resistance group which fought against the SPD and KPD
Institute of Social Research
It is also known as the Frankfurt School. It was founded at the university of Frankfurt in 1923. It helped launch the careers of certain jewish social scientist like Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse. It was founded by Felix Weil who was a student of a Marxist Philosopher Karl Kosch. The growing influence of the Nazi’s made them move the branch out of Germany to Geneva and moving all the funds to the Netherlands.In 1933, after the rise of Hitler, the Institute left Germany for Geneva and then in 1934 moved to New York City.The institue had attracted many intellectuals like Walter Benjamin and Otto Kirchheim.
Rudolf Steiner
Born on February 27, 1861, Rudolf Steiner worked as an editor on the scientific papers of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe before originating the philosophy of anthroposophy, which attempts to synthesize science and mysticism. In 1919, Steiner started his first school; today hundreds of schools around the world continue to draw inspiration from his ideas on education. Steiner died on March 30, 1925.Steiner began construction of the first version of his Goetheanum, a structure he designed as a center for anthroposophical studies, in 1913 in Dornach, Switzerland.
