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Is the philosophy by which we choose to educate our children responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes and general tone of our societies? A recent UNICEF report on wealthy countries ranked the United States and the United Kingdom at the bottom of a table that measures quality of life for young people across a wide range of headings, including poverty, health, drugs, friendships, and happiness. Experts observed that the nations that performed best in the survey have created child-friendly societies in which young people, for example, are not pressured to achieve academically until their teens. By contrast, the cultures of the US and UK are geared toward economic success, with education as a means of siftingthrough increasing testingthe high achievers who will produce the goods... Brien Masters, an educationalist for more than 50 years, states that education has a central role to play in bringing into human lives those qualities that can take us forward to a progressive future. He proposes that Rudolf Steiner's educational approach, as practiced mainly in the Waldorf schools around the world, is well equipped to enable this. In this bookthrough a series of short, engaging ch

Author

Brien Masters

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781855842007