Waldorf School

Just across the Costa Rica Tree House you'll find the Waldorf School.

It's a small Waldorf school situated in playa Chiquita, Little Beach, on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, 5 kilometers south of Puerto Viejo Talamanca in the Province of Limon.The school was founded five years ago by a group of concerned citizens looking for an alternative to traditional schooling.

History of Waldorf Education

Founded in 1919 when the Austrian philosopher and educator Rudolf Steiner was asked to develop a curriculum for the children of the workers at the Waldorf Astoria cigar factory near Stuttgart, Germany.

Since then more than 700 schools have been established worldwide. Waldorf schools have become the largest independent, non-denominational education movement in the world.

Principles of Waldorf Education

The vision of the first Waldorf school was to educate the children in such a way as to prevent future catastrophes similar to World War I. The goal would be to educate the whole child so that thinking, feeling, and doing become integrated.

The curriculum is based on the development of the child and the way the child learns at a particular stage, e.g.

The preschool child learns through imitation. The kindergarden provides a daily rhythm of play, songs, and rhymes as well as cooking, baking, and artistic activities.

The elementary school child learns through imagination. When what is presented to child speaks to the imagination and is truly felt, it is remembered and learned.

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The purpose of Waldorf Education is not to teach what to think, but how to think and to awaken the children capabilities so that each child can reach his or her full potential as a human being.

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