"My time on the Edinburgh Steiner School Teacher Education course (ESTEC) was one of the best educational experiences I've had in my lifetime. It opened my eyes to a completely different way of teaching than the one I had learned in my university and graduate programs - a holistic, considered, connected way of teaching that is taught nowhere else. One where the teacher is always the student - adapting, modifying and learning from the children in front of her.

Since the ESTEC course, I have not looked back. For me, it has planted a seed for lifelong learning about Waldorf education. Wherever this course takes you, whether it be into a Waldorf school, taking this practice into mainstream schools (if so, THANK YOU!), or your own self development, I can say with certainty that it will be a decision you never regret!"

"For me, this course was not just about training to become a great teacher but equally about my own self-development. While becoming a teacher was an immense and invaluable gift, the personal growth aspect truly, deeply transformed my life.

As we journeyed through the curriculum and studied child development, year after year, Main Lesson after Main Lesson, I was brought back to my own childhood, my education, and past learning experiences and in that process, I regain lost parts of myself."

"The course revealed to me that, as teachers, we have the duty to help children find a balance between the outer world and their individual self. I experienced that it is essential to relate what we teach to the human being so that children feel a sense of belonging to their surroundings.

We should carry the message that life is comprehensible, manageable and meaningful; that the world is moral, beautiful and true."