Steiner was brilliant, weird, and a heretic. When the Theosophists declared some Indian guy the 2nd Coming, he broke with them. Though there was a racist tinge to his thinking, the Nazis did not approve of him.
My kid did kindergarten through 8th grade and is a politcally conservative Catholic. She loved it and her teacher. She still communicates a lot with her teacher and her classmates.
I was on the scholarship committee. The applications confirmed my belief tnat, in our school at least, the parents were amomg the most immature, self-congratulatory, and self-centered people I’ve ever known. The faculty was better but they all were hard left.
I think the pedagogy was quite good. Lots of other stuff gave me the heebie-jeebies
Like most fringe belief-systems / cults, it has a nucleus of hardcore adherents espousing kooky - though not really offensive - ideas. But since Anthroposophy is surprisingly benign, tolerant, and open, the movement also attracts a lot of "hangers-on" and "fellow-travelers" who simply want to bask in the feeling of belonging to a diffuse and non-judgemental but simultaneously esoteric counter-cultural community and who pick and choose freely at the ideological Smörgåsbord it offers.
For the vast majority of "adherents," it's like joining your local Rotary Club, mixed with various aspects resembling astrology, vegetarianism, Cub Scouts, and Line Dancing.
Here in German-speaking Central Europe - where it originated - most people smile condescendingly when they learn that someone else is an acolyte.
Because there is little internal policing to ensure ideological discipline, members are pretty much free to do and say as they like. Importantly, they don't proselytize.
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