Where to start reading Steiner
These are the 33 volumes you can start on today in English without paying anything. Each one is on the Rudolf Steiner Archive to read, and has a recording of the whole book to listen to. His talks on education come first, then the books he wrote himself.
Talks on education
The course Steiner gave the teachers of the first Waldorf school, in Stuttgart in August and September 1919.
- GA 293: General Human Studies as the Basis of Education, 15 lectures, 1919
- GA 294: The Art of Education, 15 lectures, 1919
- GA 295: The Art of Education, 18 lectures, 1919
His later talks to teachers and parents, in GA order.
- GA 297: The Concept and Practice of Waldorf schools, 10 lectures, 1919 to 1920
- GA 299: Spiritual-Scientific Linguistic Considerations, 6 lectures, 1919 to 1920
- GA 301: The Renewal of Education, 14 lectures, 1920
- GA 302: Knowledge of the Human Being and Lesson Planning, 8 lectures, 1921
- GA 302a: Education and Teaching, 10 lectures, 1920 to 1923
- GA 303: Soul Economy and Waldorf Education, 16 lectures, 1921 to 1922
- GA 305: The Spiritual Ground of Education, 12 lectures, 1922
- GA 306: Educational Practice, 8 lectures, 1923
- GA 307: Contemporary Intellectual Life and Education, 14 lectures, 1923
- GA 308: The Methodology of Teaching, 5 lectures, 1924
- GA 310: Human Values in Education, 10 lectures, 1924
- GA 311: The Kingdom of Childhood, 8 lectures, 1924
Steiner for parents
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His own books
The books Steiner wrote himself (GA 1 to 28) that are also in print in English, with the publishers who sell them.
- GA 1: Goethean Science, book, 1883
- GA 2: Fundamentals of an Epistemology of Goethe's worldview, book, 1886
- GA 3: Truth and Knowledge, book, 1892
- GA 4: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, book, 1918
- GA 7: Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age, book, 1901
- GA 8: Christianity as a Mystical Fact, book, 1902
- GA 9: Theosophy, book, 1904
- GA 10: How to Know Higher Worlds, book, 1904
- GA 11: Cosmic Memory, book, 1904
- GA 12: The Stages of Higher Knowledge, book, 1905
- GA 13: Occult Science, book, 1909
- GA 14: Four Mystery Dramas, book, 1910 to 1913
- GA 15: The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind, book, 1911
- GA 16: A Road to Self-Knowledge, book, 1912
- GA 17: The Threshold of the Spiritual World, book, 1913
- GA 23: The Threefold Social Order, book, 1919
- GA 26: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts, book, 1924 to 1925
- GA 28: My Autobiography, book, 1925