What Is Waldorf All About?

Let us consider Waldorf Education with the goal to develop the functions human soul consist of thinking, feeling and the will. This is the reason they used to add the fine motor activity such as handwork and the agility exercises aside from academic training, music, art and drama.

By complying with the long term of social and spiritual evolution of humanity, Steiner was able to push that development in his educational vision. In that way you can align it in such a way as to match the particular age of a child directly with the curriculum. Of utmost importance is avoiding over-taxing the natural unfolding of the child’s esthetic constitution. The debilitating effects of such practices are experienced in eyesight, constitutional energetic, the immune system, and later on in life, a variety of hardening effects (sclerotic conditions, hardening of arteries, etc.)

This is the developmental part of education, which has been abandoned by our public education system who only strives for better test scores. An education system that focuses upon training the mind while paralyzing the body as kindergarteners are made to sit at desks, use pencils, write and copy, and give up recess because there isn't time for it.