by Rick Shrum for the Board of Trustees – 29 Apr 2004 The Board of Trustees of the new Great Barrington Waldorf High School would like to thank you for your enthusiasm and perseverance regarding the initiation of this high school. Your bold determination to have a Waldorf high school experience in the Berkshires has been the […]

by Stephen Sagarin, 10th grade advisor – 09 Mar 2004 Teaching ancient history to the Tenth Grade followed immediately by Modern History to the Ninth Grade, I was struck as I have not been in the past by the recurrence of dialectics in history. Perfected by Socrates as the true ìSocratic methodî (not simply asking questions, which […]

by Rick Shrum – 09 Feb 2004 On the evening of January 15, one of the coldest nights of the year, nearly 50 people eagerly squeezed into the school library to be fired up by the topic of Waldorf high school education. Carol Bartges from the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City gave a clear picture […]

We’ll never forget the day when Mr. Shrum bounced into our midst, more excited than usual, and said: “A letter is being mailed this week announcing that the high school is going forward.” He wanted us to be the first to know about our future at our school, our home of learning. We all responded […]