Steiner education
More of a lifestyle than a school. I loved going there, though it was only for a short time. Did Ceilidh the world of good too. One day she came home, aged 8, and told us about how her classmate, Raph, had been supping home-made beer that day. They all seem to have turned out quite well though!
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
3 Comments:
Is that william? Come on, it can't all have been that bad. I only went to the Steiner School for a bit (apparently my dad wouldn't pay my mum her maintenance if we carried on going to 'hippy school') but I loved it! Lots of creative stuff - art, music, the oh-so-radical calling teachers by their first name, the beautiful setting of that valley (?), sewing with Nim. Steiner was interdisciplinary before any other educators made it their buzzword.
were your hangups about playing football or beating kids up in the sandpit?! :0
despite the Steiner school thing in essence being a valid alternative to the typically godfearing-teatotal-methodist approach to education offered by the local village primary schools, where yearly all the children were trained like circus seal by zealous school mistresses to recite poetry accompanied by pantomine facial expressions, I remember the lawless gaggle of steiner ids - in particular the boys who would empty out of the back of knackered volvos and swarm into a poor childs birthday party, pop all the balloons, steal the sweets off the top of the cake (with mud and boggie crusted fingers) and generally bring chaos and often a level of anarchy the pot smoking parents neither cared or did anything about. However us 'other' kids were pretty resiliant and it was all great fun really - free-range child care.
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