Nowadays, even though we don't want to or don't notice it, our education is meant to become us in producers and consumers. Trying t get the best marks, the best job, better future. Although, we forget one of the most important thing in this life: how to be a person, have our ethics, develop our natural skills.
Waldorf pedagogy distinguishes three broad stages in child development. The early years education focuses on providing practical, hands-on activities and environments that encourage creative play. In the elementary school, the emphasis is on developing pupils' artistic expression and social capacities, foresting both creative and analytical modes of understanding. Secondary education focuses on developing both critical and empathetic understandings of the world through the study of maths, arts, sciences, humanities and world languages. Throughout, the approach stresses the role of the imagination in learning and places a strong value on integrating, intellectual, practical, and artistic activities across the curriculum rather than learning each academic discipline as a separate concern.
Apart from the creativity skills in this way of learning, the thing that I'm most interested in is in how they teach, since the pupils are children, to use the basic and natural materials as tools. How to convert simple wool in an scarf, grow your own vegetables from the seeds that you have been given.Milk doesn't come from the fridge, this is what we must teach to the modern children, to don't lose all these basic stuff that were normal for our grandparents and now look like an exotic thing.
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