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Thursday, November 8, 2012
How to Lose Your Teaching Job: The Big Three
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Why do teachers get fired? An old joke in Waldorf schools goes like this: A new teacher meets the teacher she’s replacing as he packs up his...
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Free the Math Gnomes
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I was part of a panel discussion on the future of Waldorf education last week. The moderator asked me to identify a “myth” about Waldorf edu...
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Elevator Speech--Part 3
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My own attempt at an elevator speech to describe Waldorf education. Waddaya think? Education inheres in the relationship of student and teac...
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Monday, September 3, 2012
An Unintended Consequence of Reading Aquinas with High School Students
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I assigned my Medieval History students Thomas Aquinas’ proofs for the existence of God from his Summa Theologiae . It was not my intention ...
Sunday, August 26, 2012
One World, Two Worlds, False Worlds, True World: Why the Education of Adolescents is so Important
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We live in one world, but we act like we live in two. We characterize these two worlds in many different ways: Mind and body, “inner life” a...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Playing “Steiner Says” Again: Nine More Myths about Waldorf Education
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(Click here to read the first installment of “Playing ‘Steiner Says.’”) I started writing this essay following a re-reading this summer of R...
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