(Steiner is the founder, Waldorf is the method)
Steiner defined 'three golden rules' for teachers:
- "to receive the child in gratitude from the world they come from";
- "to educate the child with love"; and
- "to lead the child into the true freedom which belongs to man"
Waldorf education aims to balance artistic, academic and practical work, to educate the whole child, hand, heart, as well as mind. Its methodology and developmentally-oriented curriculum, permeated with the arts, address the child's changing needs as they unfold, stage by stage. Imagination and creativity are cultivated as well as cognitive growth and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its inhabitants. An emphasis is placed on art, music and language to enrich and enliven academic subjects.
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