by Kevin Hughes
Originally published in Renewal, A Journal for Waldorf Education, Vol. 9 #1, Spring 2000
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When one enters a Waldorf school for the first time and walks through the halls and looks into a classroom or two, one of the strongest impressions (in addition to the children, of course) might well be the abundance of color. The walls arc painted in luminous colors that little resemble the flat, opaque colors that most of us are used to in schools, offices, and homes. Children's paintings in flowing colors are displayed on these walls, and often there arc colored transparencies on windows, as well as baskets of dyed woolen yarn for knitting, and displays of colored beeswax that has been modeled. The impression may be intriguing and may raise questions in the viewer's mind about the use of color in a Waldorf school, particularly in the paintings the children do, and in the painting of the classroom walls.
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Keywords: lazure, Goethe's theory of color, classroom colors