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Waldorf education has developed, over almost a century, techniques that support the healthy growth and development of the whole human being. It is recognized that the consistent and multi-leveled integration of various arts and crafts helps children not only with arts and crafts, but also with spelling, language, math, reasoning, and other fundamental skills.
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Rudolf Steiner has been referred to as “one of the best-kept secrets of the 20th century” — but this is not a good thing. His forward-looking ideas on topics ranging from education, cultural renewal, medicine, agriculture, the arts… and more, are as profound and important as they were 100 years ago. It’s not often that [...]
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Read this article, which appeared in The Nation, about how Waldorf methods are helping inspire education worldwide. In this case, Waldorf techniques are shown to help deaf children in Thailand.
A big part of Waldorf education involves meaningful contact with the natural environment. Increased usage of virtual technologies and the lack of easy access to non-developed areas makes it difficult to get in touch with the rhythms of nature, prompting concerns about what has come to be known as Nature Deficit Disorder, which has both [...]
