Do You Love Your Teachers
Do You Love Your Teachers
Do You LoveYour Teachers? is a distinctly personal account of Müller’s life and work as it relates to Waldorf education. It follows a number of different threads: First, the memoir searches for the seeds of his vocation in his childhood, boyhood, and youth, and how – through his unfolding biography – he was led to becoming a Waldorf teacher.
Secondly, but closely related, it explores how his life has shaped him into the kind of teacher he has become, such as the effects of growing up in apartheid-ridden South Africa or his stint as a rock musician. His own education in various public and private schools plays an especially important role, as it underscores some of the troubling aspects of modern educational practices, which ultimately prodded him to pursue a career in Waldorf education.
Thirdly, the memoir focuses on his experience as a teacher, which spans over three decades and makes up the bulk of the book. Do You Love Your Teachers? offers parents, teachers, and anyone who has an interest in Waldorf education an accessible account of what it means to be a teacher in a Waldorf School.
In Do You Love Your Teachers? Eric Müller recounts his experience with education
beginning with his upbringing and schooling in South Africa, his youthful searching
in Switzerland and Germany and finally Emerson College in England, where he finds
what he has been looking for. In short sections he leads the reader on from episode
to episode from his tender childhood and youthful rebelliousness in South Africa
through his stint as a rock musician and the trial of his first teaching experience, his
young family’s move from Germany to Eugene, Oregon, the growth and crisis of the
Eugene Waldorf School to his work as a high school music, drama, and English
teacher at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School. What emerges through this wide-
ranging, well-crafted narrative is the true meaning of being a teacher and how the
Waldorf approach and curriculum allow the teaching profession to blossom.
Much has been written about Waldorf education, but this is the first memoir that
describes the individual path and life experience of a Waldorf teacher. This book is a
pleasure to read and will be of interest to other teachers, Waldorf parents, and
anyone who wants to know more about education and Waldorf education in
particular.
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