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You have to start with the parents. That was the notion of community life. We have to form new communities that do this. Waldorf has done very much the same as the Steiner communities and Waldorf Schools themselves have done yeomen’s work in this direction. Individual efforts have really not come to very much. Look at China, look at India, look at the United States in our economic difficulties, what is the arena of choices that individuals, even individuals of very good intentions with regard to their family and so forth, what options do they have? This is a tight box that they’ve been put in. But I don’t see any other way other than through modeling.

You have to start with the parents. That was the notion of community life. We have to form new communities that do this. Waldorf has done very much the same as the Steiner communities and Waldorf Schools themselves have done yeomen’s work in this direction. Individual efforts have really not come to very much. Look at China, look at India, look at the United States in our economic difficulties, what is the arena of choices that individuals, even individuals of very good intentions with regard to their family and so forth, what options do they have? This is a tight box that they’ve been put in. But I don’t see any other way other than through modeling.