Waldorf
- proper noun
- As an alternative, Waldorf education focuses immediately on what is workable for each child.
- Waldorf schools
- Waldorf education
- Waldorf teachers
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One transformative educational vision is available in many Waldorf schools around the world.
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Is it possible that Waldorf education can proceed without being acquired by the American literacy system?
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By the standards of our present culture, there would be no profit in a Waldorf world.
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One Waldorf high school teacher told a story that made a deep impression on me.
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Plans estimated that there are some 150 public and private Waldorf schools presently operating in the United States.
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As we brought more Waldorf ideas into the classroom, the children turned to them and drank them in deeply.
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For individual Waldorf schools, social equality has paled before financial survival as a goal.
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The cultivation of such a worldview is an essential element of Waldorf education.
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Parents and educators remark that they commonly find such thinking in Waldorf graduates.
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The Pine Hill Waldorf School emphasizes creativity and hands-on learning in its curriculum.
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Etymology
The Waldorf method of education took its name from the first school opened for workers' children at a place called Waldorf-Astoria, where Rudolf Steiner started this way of teaching. That's why 'Waldorf' schools keep the name and are known for creative, hands-on learning.