Ihave a small story about this. The title of the thread being why is it not taught at school, well there is one place teaching it. But true, one learns more by himself sometimes and we do have everthing we need to study at home.Posted by modwiz (here)
It's kind of hard to send your kids to a Steiner school with cigarettes at almost 10 dollars a pack and cable subscriptions so high. Not to mention the kids cell phone texting bills.Posted by Flash (here)
It is thaught in Waldorf Steiner school, if you can afford it for your children.
Good of you to mention the excellent education that is available for those who insist on, and can afford, the best for their children. It shouldn't be that way. Our governments are our adversaries in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
I got an excellent academic education for free. You have to remove a lot of unwanted programming. It's like a lot of free web applications and software, it comes with so much crap, it's not really free.
The story: there was one guy at the ministry of education who was in the committee (you know government run through commitees to ensure nothing is done), and their job, mainly his, waa to develop a new school curriculum for the whole province.
He studied in depth the curriculum at Steiner schools, added up some new but old science such as many entrance doors for learning namely using all the senses, and built the curriculum fighting to get the Steiner approach in public schools. He almost won, some of the ideas were used, but transformed, after he died.
The program mainly flunk for two reasons, one, it was transformed were crucial thing should not have been, second, no budget was given to train the teachers, so they did not understand the program. I personnaly thought it was an excellent program, but not understood.
But mostly, although the guy was in his sixties, he suddenly died before the program was released. As by chance, he died. So he could not supervise the implementation of the program in public schools, nor make sure the budget were in place for the teachers.
So we remained with the same old school, a not working new curriculum that is now be reshuffled into the old one.