Our Committment to Democractic Principles

The community of the Ballarat Steiner School, Kindergarten and Playgroup support and promote the principles and practice of Australian democracy.  We value democracy as the highest ideal of human liberty and the greatest opportunity for people to live their lives free and true to their own conscience.  We acknowledge our democratic heritage and the hard won struggles throughout history to achieve this.  The key democratic ideals promoted and valued by our school are;

• Rule of law
• Elected representatives
• Equality before the law
• Majority rule/minority rights
• Freedom of speech and association
• Freedom of religion/conscience
• openness, tolerance, fairness
• universal suffrage