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The Founding Fathers are well known in the history of the United States for building the economic and political foundations of America. But who founded cultural and spiritual America? For John Fentress Gardner, it was not until the following generation that the revolutionary principles of American cultural and spiritual life were laid down by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.These three iconic heralds spoke powerfully, el...

The first edition of this classic introduction to Waldorf education in the larger context of American culture was called The Experience of Knowledge. For there was then, and still is now, a clear call for experience in education. If education becomes the mere acquisition of information, learning becomes dry, abstract, and deadening to students, who turn against it.The premise of this book is that a human being is a being of body, soul, and spi...