A remarkable attic find
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while looking for a place to put our plastic christmas tree in the attic, I stumbled upon a box containing some hand written notebook of one of my daughters¡¯ Waldorf education. I thought I had thrown everything out that had to do with that Waldorf school, long ago, but it seems I was mistaken.
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The notebooks are from the 7th year in a Belgian Waldorf School. So the children are about 13 years old. Going through them, I found some remarkeble things:
- The 4 temperaments are thaught in detail! (I never realized, or didn¡¯t pay enough attention at the time). They are linked to physical traits and described with pictures and apparently part of a subject on ¡®communication¡¯, at least the introduction is on the basic communication scheme.
- The 4 elements are also prominent. They were part of a school project my daughter did: she made up charachters based on these elements. They are also linked to the 4 temperaments.
- In the notebook on biology there¡¯s a picture of a plant and a man standing upside down. In the text it says: ¡®man is a plant upside down¡¯. That doesn¡¯t surprise me that much, because this was also thaught to me in my days in biodynamic farming school. But I find it amazing that this escapes parents¡¯ attention.
- In the notebook on history it is mentioned that the ¡®Aztecs waged war all of the time, because it was in their nature¡¯.?
- And to be intellectually honest: there is mention of the heart being a pump (at least they got that right).
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Since most of this is in Dutch, I¡¯ve chosen to add some pictures, that accompany the texts, so you have an idea.
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So, now I¡¯m wondering if this corresponds to other peoples¡¯ experiences.
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Also, it¡¯s pretty obvious that parts of anthroposophy are actively thaught in this school. This was in 2019! The schools still exists and has been growing since I took my children out. There¡¯s no indication that the curriculum has been altered since.
greetings, Kokanje ?
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A little bit late, but thank you for these images! I particularly like the upside-down plant-man. I wish I still had my waldorf school books but out of anger I threw then in the bin as a teenager.? On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 08:08, Kokanje via <landvankokanje=[email protected]> wrote:
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