Lordy Lordy!
I have a big extended family meal to prepare....yikes...
MANATEE- I am speechless. But not surprised. It's often said that ranks close and Steiner communities stick together in silence in the face of a scandal.
I only hope the children invlvolved come out of it ok.
It's the children involved which makes my blood boil.
Collateral damage of a pseudo scientific, quasi religious load of occult supernatural hokum.
Thank goodness for barking and Wilder's comedy value
Just quickly...Zazizoma- I think your proposed school, where no one is an anthroposophist, and no one has read any Steiner, (so presumably won't have done the Steiner teaching training?, or have the Steiner "model of child development") wouldn't be a "Steiner" school.
Steiner schools are Steiner schools because they are rooted in Rudolf Steiner's world view. They are based on his work and teaching.
Steiner schools employ staff who generally have done some form of Steiner teacher training.
Many Steiner schools are charities, and they have to state their objectives and activities - here's one
"The object of the charity is the education of children in accordance with the theory and practice of Rudolf Steiner."
Rudolf Steiner's theory and practice is... anthroposophical.
So- in your hyperthetical case, I would really need to know the objectives and reasons for what you teach, if my kids went there.
I was commenting on wilder's knowledge about
potential biological mechanisms for disease, and their statistical relationships when I said she knew her stuff btw.
If you copy and paste out of context, we all get in muddle.
I think Steiner was a minor thinker of his time- he is rarely mentioned among other philosophers of his day except by acolytes. Many of his ideas are cobbled together from theosophy, Goethe and other beliefs like Zorastrianism and so on, and those of the era, such as spiritual race ideas.
The teaching of myths, drawing, painting and craft I think are wonderful; but Steiner's prescriptive rules are deadening and misguided imo. His belief that children are like sacks of flour ripe for absorbing anything adults put their way is also misguided.
Children are a source of incredible origionality and creativity, and his uniform sweeping statements are simply ludicrous.
thecaty- are you a self parody?
Maybe in another years time, the parent who remembers me (from where I wonder?) will be like disenchanedgnomie at the start of this thread- (who I hope is sorting things out?) who read the threads from last year and wished she'd taken more notice.
I'm glad your children are happy, but please don't belittle those whose dc's and families have had a rough ride. You do yourself no favours.
Isenhart- development of etheric and astral bodies?