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Education for Life: Building Capacities for the Future

“It is impossible to predict what the world will be like in twenty years or to foresee how best to prepare our children for that time.  It is likely that our children will inherit an even more complex world. To be more properly prepared, students are going to need more than an education designed to promote cognitive ability and the acquisition of information.  Today’s children will need to develop capacity for imaginative thinking, capacity for emotional involvement, and capacity for firm determination to enable them to perceive events with clarity, comprehend situations fully, envision and implement new solutions for seemingly more complex problems.  They will need a capacity for emotional involvement that is both sensitive and resilient so that they will be strong enough to weather the inevitable emotional storms that will arise, and be sensitive and resilient enough to look beyond the obvious and hear what is not spoken.”

– Jack Petrash, Understanding Waldorf Education, Teaching From the Inside Out

Imagination, creativity, and the philosophy of human development underlie all of our work in our Acacia Waldorf Steiner curriculum, and these provide a cohesive rationale for all aspects of our education.  For families new to Waldorf Steiner education, the prospect of a child’s daily life at Acacia Waldorf School consists of many new, memorable and heartwarming experiences.

Our daily curriculum includes feeling and willing activities – the emotional and free aspects of human experience – combined with the thinking aspects – to enable each student to form an inner connection with what they study.  “Enlivened thinking – the kind of thinking that makes a Student catch one’s breath and lean forward with interest – has the power to connect a Student with the deepest in nature and in themselves. This connectedness of teaching and learning from within and from without enables a Student to live more fully in the world, and makes it possible for them to find meaning and wonder in existence.”

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