Mission Statement
The mission of Shining Mountain Waldorf School is to provide a comprehensive education that engages and nurtures the child physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Our age-appropriate curriculum, which integrates academics, the arts, and practical studies, has its wellspring in the spiritual insight of Rudolf Steiner. We seek to cultivate each student’s individual gifts, to encourage independent thinking and imagination, and to foster a life-long love of learning. Our goal is to enable students to become balanced, vigorous, life-affirming, and compassionate individuals. In pursuing this goal, we endeavor to involve our community in the practice of cultural renewal.

Waldorf education addresses the child as no other education does. Learning, whether in chemistry, mathematics, history, or geography, is imbued with life and so with joy, which is the only true basis for later study. Education grows into a union with life that serves Waldorf students for decades. By the time they reach us at the college or university level, these students are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of the discoverer, and the compassionate heart of the reformer which, when joined to a task, can change the planet.

Dr. Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics, Amherst College