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Blessings on our work and play,
Love be with us all each day.
Blessings on this meal.
He no longer peacefully molds beeswax into figurines for a story he’s dreamed up. The world of organic learning, of slowly seeing a wholesome project through — from milking a cow, to churning the cream into butter, to spreading the butter on bread that the children kneaded and baked — seems far away, again.
The Lessons from Waldorf
In sum, what I like about the Waldorf approach is:
1. The way it weaves music, art and physical activity into academics.
2. Its spiritual aspect. All the major religions agree, I believe, on the desirability of a reverence for life. In the Waldorf system, thjs reverence is present in every activity.
3. Its aversion to TV and to passive entertainment in general. Waldorf is the only educational system I know that squarely faces this enormous problem: If children spend a large part of their free time watching people on TV being rude, crude and violent, coveting expensive cars and other goods, and focused on sex, they are going to be worse for the experience and be harder to educate, no matter what teachers do in the classroom.
4. Its de-emphasis on materialism. Waldorf inculcates simple living by teaching the children to make much of what they use. If they’re going to learn knitting, for example, they start by making some wooden needles.
Such lessons dovetail with my attempts to teach
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