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Waldorf School

Waldorf School [ wáwl dawrf skl, wól dawrf skl ] (plural Waldorf Schools)


noun 
Definition:
 
school that accounts for child development: a school belonging to a movement that emphasizes a holistic approach to education and a broad curriculum linked to knowledge of child development. The movement is based on the ideas of Rudolph Steiner.

[After the Waldorf cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany, whose chief executive initiated such a school for its workers' children in 1919]
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