Torin Finser, Ph.D Noted educator and author Torin Finser, Ph.D. will present a lecture entitled “What Now? Developing Thoughtful Children in a Thoughtless Era” on Tuesday, December 8th at 8:00 p.m. in Bonner Hall at the Waldorf School of Garden City.

IPods. Email. Cell Phones. Adults venting at every turn. Today’s children grow up faster than ever, and the world around them seems filled with rudeness, rage, and materialism. How does Waldorf education meet the challenges of contemporary society, educating today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders?

Torin M. Finser, Ph.D., is Chair of the Education Department at Antioch University New England, and has been an educator for three decades. A keynote speaker at conferences in Asia, Europe, and throughout North America, he has consulted with many public and Waldorf schools in areas of facilitating change, designing mentoring and evaluation programs, and leadership development. His books include: Silence Is Complicity: A Call to Let Teachers Improve Our Schools through Action Research-Not “No Child Left Behind” (SteinerBooks: 2007) and School as a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class (SteinerBooks, 1994), which has been translated into Thai, Korean, and Chinese.

Co-sponsored by the Waldorf School of Garden City and the Franz E. Winkler Center for Adult Learning, “What Now? Developing Thoughtful Children in a Thoughtless Era,” will take place on Tuesday, December 8th at 8:00 p.m. in Bonner Hall at the Waldorf School of Garden City, 225 Cambridge Avenue, in Garden City, The suggested donation for tickets is $10 per person.