English Issue 24/2024

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who guards the guardians? The Roman writer Juvenal asked this question 2000 years ago. Unlike Rudolf Steiner, he might not have had the idea of the social organism in mind yet, but he got to its core. Just like blood and lymph circulate in the body and find their center in homeostasis, circulation should regulate how we live with and for each other. With this in mind, those responsible for Waldorf training institutions around the world met at the Worldwide Teacher Education Conference in Dornach to ask: “Who trains the trainers?” We find answers here at the Goetheanum.