This post is from a blog called The Perfect Whole. The writer rather eloquently describes the value of a Waldorf Education beyond the cost of tuition.  Here’s an extract but you are encouraged to read the article in its entirety for it is magnificently written.

Attending a Waldorf school gave our children an education and a childhood very far outside the mainstream of American culture. Waldorf schools begin with an entirely different set of assumptions about the purposes of education. Teachers are not preparing students for a test, or to meet the state standards, to get into an exclusive college (although many do), or even to compete in the workplace (although, of course, Waldorf graduates do that, too). The purpose of Waldorf education is to prepare students for their freedom and their destiny, and fulfilling those goals requires an expansive definition of education. Children’s relationships, physical health, spiritual development,  artistic expression, and imagination are given as much attention as their intellects (more, really, in the multi-age nursery-kindergarten), as is their ability to work and play with their hands, limbs, heads and hearts.

http://perfectwhole.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/what-we-got-for-140000/