patrick morris

hi,
I think steiner is really a powerful thinker that adds a lot to
challenging assumptions about existence, that said the whole bit
about brain development and psychology supporting steiner's veiw is
a load of... it just isn't true, the waldorf people pick and choose
what might support their notions. I am a cerified waldorf class
teacher . I've read a lot of steiner during my immersion , probably
200 of his 6000 published works, a harah for the free steiner
l;ending libray , nice system. These ideas really are antithetical
on the most part to the philoshophy of unschooling. Letting the baby
cry and stopping breast feeding at 1 , I'm sorry its not connected
enough about real present relationships and the ability to
understand and engage at the moment with another human being. It is
full of dogma and rules, now when i say it I mean the waldorf
ideology, more than steiner himself. people have taken his ideas and
formed rigid prescriptions, steiner himself on his death bed felt
that his whole educational philoshophy was wrong and he would do it
very differently, ah , death left that as an un 0- elucidated
statement. steiner felt there should be no formal education till the
age of 12, and the school was a compromise toward the laws of the
german govt, but visit a school , it is certainly a better version
of school, but it borrows so much and doesn't penetrate to the heart
of relationship enougjh. this phys ed spatial dynamics is excellent,
and the art , cool , but it is really way too creul a system, though
it rests so much on the relationship of the class teacher with the
students. trust me the waldorf ideas will lead you to a judgemental
place of right and wrong and not really challenge you to explore the
relationship, and the true learning from emotional experience that
unschooling offers to you and your child
patrick