Attributed to Rudolf Steiner
«"Receive the child in reverence, educate him in love, and send him forth in freedom."»
Misattributed
Verdict
It is not in Rudolf Steiner's work
A widely circulated Waldorf motto attributed to Steiner. We have not found this literal wording in his books or in the GA education cycles; it summarises ideas from his lectures to teachers and appears to be a later synthesis by the Waldorf movement. It should be cited as a motto, not as a verbatim quotation.
Source: Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Dornach / Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Basilea: Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (GA).
What they did say
Verified words of Rudolf Steiner
«Only when I follow my love for the object is it I myself who act.»
Die Philosophie der Freiheit (1894), cap. «Die Idee der Freiheit»
«To live and let live is the fundamental maxim of free human beings. They know no 'ought'.»
Die Philosophie der Freiheit (1894), cap. «Die Idee der Freiheit» (formulación de la primera edición)
«To live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other's will, is the fundamental maxim of free human beings.»
Die Philosophie der Freiheit, ed. revisada de 1918 (GA 4), cap. IX