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Another reason for Waldorf’s growing success is its focus of contributing to spiritual, social, and economic renewal. The philosophy of Waldorf is to educate children to be whole in themselves, in touch with their feelings, emotions and spirituality as well as their intellect. Waldorf works to create participating members of society and community in the fullest sense. “The more dangerous the world becomes, the more necessary Waldorf becomes,” emphasized Mattke, “by providing a creative, comfortable, beautiful and secure environment from the earliest start of education, the child is empowered to feel safe and to befriend himself. Children mirror the surrounding world, and Waldorf gives the child time to be a child, protected from growing too fast at too young an age.”
This is an essential difference in Waldorf education, which celebrates the rhythm of a child’s natural development and growth and in doing so strives to counteract the consumerism that is targeted at the young, especially in the United States. In many instances, television and the media have greater exposure to children than do teachers and parents. Waldorf strives to protect children’s time to play, learn, experiment and experience, to quite simply be children.
“We don’t know what lies ahead for today’s children, only that the future will
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