The Way of a Child: An Introduction to Steiner Education and the Basics of Child Development

Pressured by exams and premature academic demands, surrounded by screens and technology, children today face huge challenges. Childhood itself, it could be said, is facing a crisis. Are children in danger of losing their natural imaginative faculties, which are the source of all creative activity in later life? As a society, are we in danger of losing childhood altogether?

First published in 1940, Harwood's little book has become a classic introduction to the perennial themes of child develo...