A Unique Aspect of Waldorf Education: The Governance Council Introduces Distance Learning
One of Rudolf Steiner’s insights for us as teachers is that what we remember and what we know or come to understand are two fundamentally different human processes. This means that if we wish to educate young people so that they come to know, it must happen by a different process than how we ask them to remember. Of course these two processes overlap and interact, and both are necessary in educational practice. However, most of humanity for most of modern history has focused on educational methods that train memory with coming to know as a by-product, and few pedagogies outside Waldorf education have focused on a method that addresses the question: How do we come to know? Read more in our newsletter…