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Octave is a collection of eight essays from a master Waldorf teacher and includes chapters on how to motivate children, parent-teacher relationships, and the school organization as a living organism. Included is a chapter that questions whether moral principles can be taught, as well as an essay entitled ""The Seven Cosmic Artists: an Artistic View of Child Development,"" teaching children and young people by educating the whole person of body, soul, and spirit in a balanced way. Such an education can be carried out only if the educator is aware how in evolution the physical is formed out of the soul and spirit. One can participate in the education of a being only if one understands the laws of this education. This book is filled with gems to be mined by teachers, parents, students of spiritual science, and scholars. Throughout, the reader will find a voice wise with experience and warmth of heart, a source of encouragement and advice.

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Magda Lissau was born in Vienna, Austria, to parents who knew Rudolf Steiner. She had intended to study chemistry at the University of Vienna, but trained as a teacher at the Camphill Schools in Scotland instead. She moved to South Africa in 1961, where she taught at a Camphill institution in Johannesburg, and then, in 1964, joined Michael Mount Waldorf School as a class teacher. While on sabbatical in 1975 she visited Waldorf teacher development institutes in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway and England, and then in North America, where she remained for three months at the Waldorf Institute in Detroit--now Sunbridge College. After moving to the United States, Magda taught and consulted with teachers in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore before moving to Chicago in 1981. She has been active there ever since, eventually both teaching in and administrating the Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program, a Waldorf teacher development institution. She also writes on Waldorf education.

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