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[The Well-Trained Mind] “Your job, during the elementary years, is to supply the knowledge and skills that will allow your child to overflow with creativity as his mind matures.” (page 22) ”Too close a focus on self-expression at an early age can actually cripple a child later on; a student who has always been encouraged to look inside himself may not develop a frame of reference, a sense of how ideas measure up against the thoughts and beliefs of others.” (page 23) [Waldorf] “in these years we must always take care that, as teachers, we create what goes from us to the children in an exciting way so that it gives rise to the imagination. Teachers must inwardly and livingly present the subject material; they must fill it with imagination.” (page 210, The Foundations of Human Experience)Emphasis on the teacher preparing the material and having the teacher present the material as opposed to reading it from a book. No textbooks are used. In Steiner’s views, the teaching through art and rhythm and music IS the way to teach, , the children do what the teacher does (although if you look at the Main Lesson books of a Waldorf class none of the paintings, books, etc look the same!) [0] 
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Differences Between Waldorf and The Well-Trained Mind: Grades One Through Four | The Parenting Passageway
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