Founding of the First Waldorf School - Waldorf Research Institute

trust cannot be established by force; we must behave in sucha way that we become worthy of trust. When does a personbecome worthy of trust? When he begins to work out of hisown higher aims, then he will be trustworthy, also for hisstudents. We become trustworthy to the degree that we striveto realize the goals that we have set for ourselves. That createstrust between human beings. This would be one condition.And the other — this is the only way I can see it — is to workactively with anthroposophy. Without this, a harmoniouscooperation between colleagues cannot take place. What Imean is this: that I study and actively work with the spiritualwealth of anthroposophy, with the nature of the human being.Perhaps there is still a third condition — it is a questionthat I cannot answer. And that is the size of the group, thenumber. There are quite difficult experiences in Germanywith the large faculties of teachers — fifty or sixty membersof the interne Konferenz. Can there still be a genuine meeting— can the true spirit of the Konferenz still live — under thesecircumstances? This is a question that I cannot and do notwish to answer. It is possible that a third condition is stillnecessary, and that relates to the size of the faculty of teachers;for it can only work if we can permeate one another. Perhapsyou understand what I mean when I say this — we must learnto know one another. Ours must not become an anonymousrelationship. We must have encountered the “I” of anotherperson.Now permit me to give you two key concepts that RudolfSteiner developed in the year 1923, which should be discussedat length. The first concept is: awakening to the soul-spiritualnature of the other human being. What does this mean? Imust resolve to discover the higher being of the other person,my colleague. In every person, there is a striving I. There is62