Steiner believed a new kind of comprehensive school was needed to address the "whole child" - physical, intellectual, social and spiritual - and teach them in developmentally appropriate stages. The founder of the movement, Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner, started his first school in 1919 for the children of workers in a Waldorf cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany, after World War I left Europe devastated. It was founded in 1947, nearly two decades after the first Waldorf school in the United States opened in 1928 in Manhattan. Enrollment in the high school is at record levels, administrators said, and the school is attracting attention from as far away as China and Korea. Her daughter is 4 and has never watched television, seen a movie, played a video game or used a computer, iPad or laptop. "People like the back-to-basics approach," said Christine Bleecker, the school's director of admissions. The approach enhances students' creativity, analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, attention spans and social skills, Waldorf educators said. The school encourages families to follow the "no-tech" philosophy at home and to introduce such gadgets in limited doses as children get older. Teachers and students stick with traditional, old-fashioned blackboards and chalk. Until sixth grade, there are no computers, Smartboards, iPads, laptops or televisions.
"Modern culture is going one way, and we are saying, 'We need to think about this.' " "It's hard to swim against the stream, and that's what we are doing," said Carol Proctor, associate director of admissions at the Garden City Waldorf school. Montessori schools, generally speaking, also have shunned the push to include technology, but there are few others. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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