In Light of the Spirit

John Gardner was a lead teacher and Faculty Chair at the Waldorf school in Garden City for three decades. He was also the inspiring leader of Waldorf Education at Adelphi University during these same decades. Uncountable are the Waldorf teachers who were instilled with an unassailable, practical idealism by John Gardner in their training there. 

Many of his insights and revolutionary ideas are well known in his published books. In this new release of Waldorf Publications, edited by Douglas Gerwin, we find the lesser-known essays of this remarkable leader, a remarkable man. Mr. Gardner was, in his lifetime, an inspiration to many, with his characteristic gestures of reassurance, clarity, and open-hearted questioning. 

John Gardner wrote and gave lectures on a dazzlingly broad range of topics, including radical and thrilling ideas about education, government, the future, and the young. He carried equally radical and thrilling ideas about the re-ordering of society. All of these topics are in this exciting collection of his deepest and most stimulating lectures.

Waldorf Publications
ISBN: 978-1-963686-19-7
Publication Date: 2/2026
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
Illustrations: None