Waldorf School
Just across the Costa Rica Tree House Lodge you'll find the Waldorf School.
It's a small school situated in playa Chiquita, 5 kilometers south of Puerto Viejo.The school was founded seven years ago by a group of concerned citizens looking for an alternative to traditional schooling.
History of Waldorf Education
Founded in 1919 when the Austrian philosopher and educator Rudolf Steiner was asked to develop a curriculum for the children of the workers at the Waldorf Astoria cigar factory near Stuttgart, Germany.
Since then more than 700 schools have been established worldwide. Waldorf schools have become the largest independent, non-denominational education movement in the world.
Principles of Waldorf Education
The vision of the first Waldorf school was to educate the children in such way as to prevent future catastrophes similar to World War I. The goal would be to educate the whole child so that thinking, feeling, and doing become integrated.
The curriculum is based on the development of the children and the way they learn at a particular stage.
Preschool children learn through imitation. The kindergarden provides a daily rhythm of songs and rhymes as well as cooking, baking, and artistic activities.
Elementary school children learn through imagination. If what is presented to a child speaks to the imagination and is truly felt, it is remembered and learned.
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The purpose of Waldorf Education is not to teach what to think, but how to think and to awaken the children capabilities so that each child can reach his or her full potential as a human being.
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