What make a Waldorf school different?
Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. We integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool (Early Childhood) through the grades. The aim of the education is to inspire life-long learning in students and to enable him or her to fully develop their unique capacities. It is education for the “whole child”! Does Waldorf Education prepare children for the ‘real’ world; and, if so, how does it do it? It is easy to fall into the error of believing that education must make our children fit into society. Although we are certainly influenced by what the world bring us, the fact is that the world is shaped by people, not people by the world. However, that shaping of the world is possible in a healthy way only if the shapers are themselves in possession of their full nature as human beings. Education in our materialistic, Western society focuses on the intellectual aspect of the human being and has chosen largely to ignore the several o
