ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the development of general personal competences that will be presented from the point of view of anthroposophy and Waldorf education. It first inquires into the discourse in education science that has recently highlighted the importance of the teacher's personality in the pedagogical process. It examines how the teaching profession is seen as a path of inner development in anthroposophically oriented pedagogy, and of personal qualities that seem worth striving for in this context. The chapter examines some of Rudolf Steiner's guidelines for practicing this inner development concerning their relevance to the teaching profession. Rudolf Steiner conceived Waldorf education as an “art” and was convinced that it was necessary for “education to become an art”. This would be possible, he thought, if the principles of education science, which were basically correct, were permeated and quickened by the living concepts of anthroposophy.
