Bringing an idea to fruition
Collaboration, community, and cohesion
The Michael Mount logo is an organic image that signifies a promise: the unfurling of a new leaf…the emergence of new life growing towards actualisation.
The logo embodies a core Waldorf tenet: that the child is not a vessel to be filled, but a unique being with innate and complex capacities to unfold and develop.
The unfolding leaf is presented inside a pentagram. A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The points of the star are sometimes connected and sometimes encircled.
The symbol of the pentagram has been used since time immemorial with widely differing meanings assigned to it by different cultures and religions. It is present in Neolithic caves, in early Sumerian scripts, and in Mayan, Greek, Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese cultures. In Western traditions the single point upwards was understood to depict spirit presiding over the four elements of matter: earth, water, air and fire – representing the triumph of spirit over matter.
The triangles on the inside of the spiral represent geometric designs prevalent in Africa.
