http://words.edublogs.org English for non-native speakers, learning for the 'very able' and e-learning Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:09:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://words.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/rudolf-steiner-and-waldorf-today/ http://words.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/rudolf-steiner-and-waldorf-today/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:21:56 +0000 words http://words.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/rudolf-steiner-and-waldorf-today/ I work in a Waldorf school and think that the community atmosphere there is extraordinarily good compared with many other education institutions where I have worked. I also sense and know that ex-pupils of our school have obtained through the efforts of all of the people who comprise that school community an exceptional start in life fitting them to adjust to anything that life may place in their path.
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However especially highly successful ventures must adapt to change and move forward. This was the point of the revolutionary thinker Rudolf Steiner who founded, amongst many other initiatives, the first Waldorf school. He founded that school to change the education he found in the historical, physical, political and social society of his day. The challenge which Waldorf communities must face up to is to accommodate his principles grounded in a non-digital world to the digital world of today. In that his principles are often diametrically opposed to today’s world that is an enormous challenge for pupils, parents, teachers and friends. After all when Steiner’s first wooden Goetheanum was burnt down on completion he rebuilt it in concrete. Thus:’problems are merely opportunities in disguise’…

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