School is a place to growing up, learn and preparing for independent living. School as a community can affect someone's childhood in various ways, but also one's entire life. Some people remember school days with joy, or happiness and nostalgia while others prefer adult life. There is an important difference between a public and an alternative private school, such as the Waldorf School, in the way of teaching, upbringing, social relations, but ultimately the impact on further life. This paper will be about just that. The paper consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. It introduces the theoretical part into anthroposophy as a spiritual science, shows the differences in temperaments and the importance of knowing them for more accessible and better teaching. It also lists and explains the differences between the state and Waldorf schools in the organization of teaching, the types of subjects and their teaching, and the types of evaluation and assessment. The empirical part consisted of qualitative research that aimed to present experiences and adjustments after attending Waldorf school. The case study observed one family and involved four participants. All participants attended a Waldorf school in Zagreb for at least four years. Data were collected in a semi-structured interview consisting of twenty-nine questions. After observing the questions and answers of the participants, it was concluded that the participants have different experiences after attending a Waldorf school and adjusting to a public school. Adaptation experiences are the same or similar in adjusting to textbooks, leisure, proximity to school, social relationships with other children and teachers. Participants have similar opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of public and Waldorf schools, and have different opinions on whether to introduce manual work in public schools, enrolment of their own children in Waldorf school, learning by epochs, etc. After the results and discussion, conclusion was made about the Waldorf school which confirms that the alternative Waldorf and state schools differ considerably.