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Rudolf Steiner, “Spiritual Ground of Education”, Lecture 4

“Our rightful place as educators is to be removers of hindrances.”  – Rudolf Steiner, “Spiritual Ground of Education” “…Each child in every age brings something new into the world from divine regions, and it is our task as educators to remove bodily and psychical obstacles out of its way; to remove hindrances so that his …

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How is Reading Introduced in a Waldorf Curriculum? by Cristina Drews MS Ed.

The Language Arts in Waldorf schools are taught in the order in which language developed historically. Humans begin with listening, then speaking emerges, then pictures in hieroglyph or ideogram, and only then does the alphabet arise as we know it today. This is how humanity came to writing.  Without stories in the oral tradition, and …

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