Name: PARENT TALK: How Does Steiner Education Build Meaningful Lives?
Start: 2026-03-10T08:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-10T10:00:00+11:00
Location: Port Macquarie Hastings Library Service

PARENT TALK: How Does Steiner Education Build Meaningful Lives?

How Does Steiner Education Build Meaningful Lives?
Location: Port Macquarie Library Meeting Room 2
This talk is suitable for current parents and parents interested in enrolling students in Steiner Education.
“Our highest endeavour is to produce young men and women who out of themselves are able
to impart meaning and direction to their own lives.”
(Foreword to the first edition of Dr Rudolf Steiner’s Foundations of Human Experience)
How does Steiner education build meaningful lives? Over recent years there has been some fascinating research that details just what constitutes a meaningful life. Among the key elements are purpose, story-telling, belonging and transcendence. Sound familiar?
Yes, these “pillars of meaningfulness” are exactly what Steiner schools aim to deliver. But we do much more. This talk will draw together the elements of Steiner education that deliver a meaningful education and form the “pillars” of a lifelong meaningful journey for our students.
Andrew Hill, CEO Steiner Education Australia
Andrew Hill trained in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. He lived for a year in the rainforest completing a study of the culture of one of the First Nations people of Malaysia, is fluent in their language, and has maintained a lifelong connection with his adopted family there.
He taught Behavioural Science in Medicine at the Universities of Sydney and Newcastle before becoming a Steiner teacher. He was involved in founding and establishing the first ten years of the Newcastle Waldorf School where he took his first Class Teacher cycle.
At Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Sydney he took two more class teacher cycles, and taught high school up to Year 12. He was Collegiate Chair and Head of School at Glenaeon for 14 years, where he led the renewal of Australia’s first Steiner school. He was one of the original writers of the government approved Australian Steiner Curriculum Framwork, and based on his lifelong connection with Asian and First Nations communities, he has been active in working on a global Steiner-Waldorf curriculum.
He is a regular presenter on Steiner education at schools and conferences in Australia and internationally, and has been involved in teacher training for many years at the January Class Teacher Intensives as well as in Waldorf schools in South East Asia, where he currently mentors a number of developing schools in Malaysia and Indonesia. He joined the Anthroposophical Society at the age of 21, and has been the CEO of Steiner Education Australia since 2023.