Videos by Eugene Schwartz on YouTube.com, Vimeo.com, and Other Venues
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No Success Like Failure
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Why Waldorf Education in the 21st Century?
A Conversation with Parents at the Yuba River Charter School
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Light in the Darkness / Darkness in the Light:
A New Perspective on Media and the Waldorf Schools
Waldorf schools are famous for their outspoken defense of children from the onslaught of media. But as computers and smart phones, tablets and eBooks become almost inescapable in everyday life, do Waldorf schools run the risk of growing entrenched in their attitude toward a device-filled world? If Waldorf students are encouraged to say “Yes” to the world, should their schools be saying “No”?
As a Waldorf educator, Eugene Schwartz is convinced that we cannot oppose television, computer games, and social media without deepening our understanding of child development. As an Apple iOS Developer, Eugene contends that we cannot understand the enigma of today’s child without a broader connection to media technology. Waldorf education, he believes, has the potential to bring breadth and depth to both of these worlds.
Click here to view the video on Vimeo.com
Whither Waldorf? A Debate
The First-Ever Debate about Issues in Waldorf Education
Critics of Waldorf education often label it a “closed system” that resists innovation and not tolerate debate. In reality, Waldorf education has been undergoing profound changes. Responding to intense pressure from parents, independent Waldorf schools have quietly replaced “generalist” class teachers with specialists, introduced testing and grades at the middle school level, and made homework in early grades more the rule than the exception. But because of the schools’ aversion to open debate, these changes have come in through the “back door,” and have become accomplished facts that are hard to reverse.
With this in mind, the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education dared to tread where independent Waldorf schools fear to go, and invited Rainbow Rosenbloom and Eugene Schwartz to engage in a debate about a number of substantive issues living in the Waldorf movement.
Click here to view the debate on Vimeo.com
What is Waldorf Education, Part One
What is Waldorf Education, Part Two
In preparation for a new documentary about Waldorf education, the Marin Waldorf School interviewed Eugene Schwartz in Mill Valley, CA in the autumn of 2010. This two-part video presents the entire interview, only a small part of which will appear in the finished film. This version is uncut and unedited: watch Eugene sweat and squirm as he is relentlessly grilled by two interviewers who refuse to accept platitudes as answers! These interviews may be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/22396764 and http://vimeo.com/22397678
“Discover Waldorf Education” series:
1. An Overview of Waldorf Education: The Waldorf Curriculum is illustrated through the medium of classroom work by students from grades one through twelve
2. Learning to Read, Part One: The importance of movement and form perception in the teaching of reading in the Waldorf school.
3. Learning to Read, Part Two: How the Waldorf teacher recapitulates the development of letters through history to teach reading in the primary grades.
4. Grade Six Geometry: A kaleidoscopic look at the rigorous and beautiful geometrical drawings done by Waldorf sixth graders.
5. Discover Waldorf Education - The High School shows the manifold interplay of the Waldorf grade school and high school, as well as the “vertical” and “horizontal” integration of subjects in the high school years.
6. Discover Waldorf Education - Form Drawing, A Threefold Perspective is a humorous look at a very serious subject.
7.No Childhood Left Behind: An excerpt from an introductory lecture given in Jacksonville, FL.
Recessitation: Bullying in the Waldorf School: Bullying is a pervasive, but often ignored part of school life. Eugene Schwartz's provocative video "Recessitation," takes a long and hard look at this issue, and includes footage of a melee on a Waldorf campus.
“Discover Waldorf Foundations” series:
For the first time ever, YouTube.com is hosting a full-length (1 hour and 40 minutes) lecture on the relationship of Waldorf education to Anthroposophy. Eugene Schwartz's lecture, Initiation or Vitiation: Can Waldorf Education Go Forward into the 21st Century? is the first in a series entitled Discover Waldorf Foundations that will examine the anthroposophical roots of Waldorf education. Due to its length, the lecture had to be divided into 12 segments, each one about 8 - 9 minutes long. The lecture can be viewed on this web site by clicking here, or by visiting the Playlist on YouTube by using this link: For an overview of the twelve installments click here.
Discover Waldorf Foundations - The Fourfold Human Being is a remarkable animated presentation of a fundamental aspect of Waldorf education.
Videos en Español . . . .
A group of Waldorf parents in Argentina have added Spanish subtitles to three of Eugene’s “Discover Waldorf Education” videos. Click to view.
. . . . and in Portugese: Pedagogia Waldorf - ensinando a ler e escrever
Gustavo Exel, a Brazilian Waldorf school parent, has subtitled Eugene’s “Learning to Read, Part One” video. Click to view and use the “Closed Captions” button on the YouTube screen to read the subtitles.
Other Videos By and With Eugene Schwartz:
Incarnation, Interrupted: Autism and Our Age
This lecture was given in England, at the Glasshouse College, a remarkable center for work with developmentally-challenged young people. Eugene Schwartz draws on the psychological and sociological methodology of Rudolf Steiner to present a picture of autism that embeds it in a wide range of phenomena of the times in which we live.
Today’s Children Need Tomorrow’s Schools: A complete lecture given at the Elmfield School, one of the oldest Waldorf schools in England. Eugene discusses the challenges faced by education in the twenty-first century and the manifold ways in which Waldorf methods can meet them.
Reading and Today’s Child: A complete lecture given to a association of journalists in Anchorage, Alaska. Eugene examines the role of literacy in our age of instant messaging and texting, and shows the importance of a slow and artistically-imbued approach to reading and writing.
No Childhood Left Behind: Excerpts from a lecture given in Jacksonville, FL. A refutation of the test-driven educational methods increasingly adopted by Congress and state legislators, this lecture presents the radically child-centered methodology of Waldorf schools.
Turning Points in the Life of the Child: Excerpts from a lecture given in Santa Monica, CA. The importance of the seven, nine, and twelve years cycles in the life of the child.
Lectures on Waldorf Education given in Izmir, Turkey: Eugene was invited by a group of private schools to give the first lectures on Waldorf education ever presented in Turkey.
Balance in Teaching Part 1 : A lecture given to graduate students in the Touro University Waldorf Masters Course.
Balance in Teaching Part 2: The second part of the Touro University lecture.
Recessitation: Bullying in the Waldorf School: Bullying is a pervasive, but often ignored part of school life. Eugene Schwartz's provocative video "Recessitation," takes a long and hard look at this issue, and includes footage of a melee on a Waldorf campus.
Eurythmy and Waldorf Education: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD presents the most extensive footage of eurythmy in the classroom ever recorded. Commentary by experienced eurythmy teachers complements the beauty, grace, and focus of the students as they learn and perform. This video has been watched by over 60,000 viewers.
Eurythmy on the Stage: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD features the Goetheanum Stage Ensemble in its cutting edge performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s contemporary piece, “Seven Words.”
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Receive a free download of Help from the Hierarchies, a new lecture by Eugene Schwartz. Mailing list members will be the first to learn of new podcasts, articles, and CD releases, as well as lecture and Internet appearances by Eugene. Click here to join the list.
Become a Member of MillennialChild.com
Help us continue to offer the growing number of free resources that are improving the quality of education offered to thousands of children around the world. An annual membership of $50, or a monthly membership of $5, helps us purchase and maintain the hardware, software, and Internet service providers that are necessary for a site that offers so much. Annual Members receive a 30% discount on CD Downloads and one free phone consultation a year with Eugene Schwartz; Monthly Members receive a 20% discount on Downloads.
Click here for more information.
No Success Like Failure
Click here to view the video on YouTube.com
Why Waldorf Education in the 21st Century?
A Conversation with Parents at the Yuba River Charter School
Click here to view the video on YouTube.com
Light in the Darkness / Darkness in the Light:
A New Perspective on Media and the Waldorf Schools
Waldorf schools are famous for their outspoken defense of children from the onslaught of media. But as computers and smart phones, tablets and eBooks become almost inescapable in everyday life, do Waldorf schools run the risk of growing entrenched in their attitude toward a device-filled world? If Waldorf students are encouraged to say “Yes” to the world, should their schools be saying “No”?
As a Waldorf educator, Eugene Schwartz is convinced that we cannot oppose television, computer games, and social media without deepening our understanding of child development. As an Apple iOS Developer, Eugene contends that we cannot understand the enigma of today’s child without a broader connection to media technology. Waldorf education, he believes, has the potential to bring breadth and depth to both of these worlds.
Click here to view the video on Vimeo.com
Whither Waldorf? A Debate
The First-Ever Debate about Issues in Waldorf Education
Critics of Waldorf education often label it a “closed system” that resists innovation and not tolerate debate. In reality, Waldorf education has been undergoing profound changes. Responding to intense pressure from parents, independent Waldorf schools have quietly replaced “generalist” class teachers with specialists, introduced testing and grades at the middle school level, and made homework in early grades more the rule than the exception. But because of the schools’ aversion to open debate, these changes have come in through the “back door,” and have become accomplished facts that are hard to reverse.
With this in mind, the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education dared to tread where independent Waldorf schools fear to go, and invited Rainbow Rosenbloom and Eugene Schwartz to engage in a debate about a number of substantive issues living in the Waldorf movement.
Click here to view the debate on Vimeo.com
What is Waldorf Education, Part One
What is Waldorf Education, Part Two
In preparation for a new documentary about Waldorf education, the Marin Waldorf School interviewed Eugene Schwartz in Mill Valley, CA in the autumn of 2010. This two-part video presents the entire interview, only a small part of which will appear in the finished film. This version is uncut and unedited: watch Eugene sweat and squirm as he is relentlessly grilled by two interviewers who refuse to accept platitudes as answers! These interviews may be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/22396764 and http://vimeo.com/22397678
“Discover Waldorf Education” series:
1. An Overview of Waldorf Education: The Waldorf Curriculum is illustrated through the medium of classroom work by students from grades one through twelve
2. Learning to Read, Part One: The importance of movement and form perception in the teaching of reading in the Waldorf school.
3. Learning to Read, Part Two: How the Waldorf teacher recapitulates the development of letters through history to teach reading in the primary grades.
4. Grade Six Geometry: A kaleidoscopic look at the rigorous and beautiful geometrical drawings done by Waldorf sixth graders.
5. Discover Waldorf Education - The High School shows the manifold interplay of the Waldorf grade school and high school, as well as the “vertical” and “horizontal” integration of subjects in the high school years.
6. Discover Waldorf Education - Form Drawing, A Threefold Perspective is a humorous look at a very serious subject.
7.No Childhood Left Behind: An excerpt from an introductory lecture given in Jacksonville, FL.
Recessitation: Bullying in the Waldorf School: Bullying is a pervasive, but often ignored part of school life. Eugene Schwartz's provocative video "Recessitation," takes a long and hard look at this issue, and includes footage of a melee on a Waldorf campus.
“Discover Waldorf Foundations” series:
For the first time ever, YouTube.com is hosting a full-length (1 hour and 40 minutes) lecture on the relationship of Waldorf education to Anthroposophy. Eugene Schwartz's lecture, Initiation or Vitiation: Can Waldorf Education Go Forward into the 21st Century? is the first in a series entitled Discover Waldorf Foundations that will examine the anthroposophical roots of Waldorf education. Due to its length, the lecture had to be divided into 12 segments, each one about 8 - 9 minutes long. The lecture can be viewed on this web site by clicking here, or by visiting the Playlist on YouTube by using this link: For an overview of the twelve installments click here.
Discover Waldorf Foundations - The Fourfold Human Being is a remarkable animated presentation of a fundamental aspect of Waldorf education.
Videos en Español . . . .
A group of Waldorf parents in Argentina have added Spanish subtitles to three of Eugene’s “Discover Waldorf Education” videos. Click to view.
. . . . and in Portugese: Pedagogia Waldorf - ensinando a ler e escrever
Gustavo Exel, a Brazilian Waldorf school parent, has subtitled Eugene’s “Learning to Read, Part One” video. Click to view and use the “Closed Captions” button on the YouTube screen to read the subtitles.
Other Videos By and With Eugene Schwartz:
Incarnation, Interrupted: Autism and Our Age
This lecture was given in England, at the Glasshouse College, a remarkable center for work with developmentally-challenged young people. Eugene Schwartz draws on the psychological and sociological methodology of Rudolf Steiner to present a picture of autism that embeds it in a wide range of phenomena of the times in which we live.
Today’s Children Need Tomorrow’s Schools: A complete lecture given at the Elmfield School, one of the oldest Waldorf schools in England. Eugene discusses the challenges faced by education in the twenty-first century and the manifold ways in which Waldorf methods can meet them.
Reading and Today’s Child: A complete lecture given to a association of journalists in Anchorage, Alaska. Eugene examines the role of literacy in our age of instant messaging and texting, and shows the importance of a slow and artistically-imbued approach to reading and writing.
No Childhood Left Behind: Excerpts from a lecture given in Jacksonville, FL. A refutation of the test-driven educational methods increasingly adopted by Congress and state legislators, this lecture presents the radically child-centered methodology of Waldorf schools.
Turning Points in the Life of the Child: Excerpts from a lecture given in Santa Monica, CA. The importance of the seven, nine, and twelve years cycles in the life of the child.
Lectures on Waldorf Education given in Izmir, Turkey: Eugene was invited by a group of private schools to give the first lectures on Waldorf education ever presented in Turkey.
Balance in Teaching Part 1 : A lecture given to graduate students in the Touro University Waldorf Masters Course.
Balance in Teaching Part 2: The second part of the Touro University lecture.
Recessitation: Bullying in the Waldorf School: Bullying is a pervasive, but often ignored part of school life. Eugene Schwartz's provocative video "Recessitation," takes a long and hard look at this issue, and includes footage of a melee on a Waldorf campus.
Eurythmy and Waldorf Education: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD presents the most extensive footage of eurythmy in the classroom ever recorded. Commentary by experienced eurythmy teachers complements the beauty, grace, and focus of the students as they learn and perform. This video has been watched by over 60,000 viewers.
Eurythmy on the Stage: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD features the Goetheanum Stage Ensemble in its cutting edge performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s contemporary piece, “Seven Words.”
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Receive a free download of Help from the Hierarchies, a new lecture by Eugene Schwartz. Mailing list members will be the first to learn of new podcasts, articles, and CD releases, as well as lecture and Internet appearances by Eugene. Click here to join the list.