The clear deep lake
I love to see the summer beaming forth
And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north
I love to see the wild flowers come again
And mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain
And water lilies whiten on the floods
Where reed clumps rustle like a wind shook wood
Where from her hiding place the Moor Hen pushes
And seeks her flag nest floating in bull rushes
I like the willow leaning half way o’er
The clear deep lake to stand upon its shore
I love the hay grass when the flower head swings
To summer winds and insects happy wings
That sport about the meadow the bright day
And see bright beetles in the clear lake play
—John Clare,“I love to see the summer beaming forth”
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Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart
A Natural Approach to Learning the Art of Drawing
Van James
A comprehensive and practical guide to the art of drawing and to the process of visual thinking that is part of our full human intelligence. More than 500 illustrated exercises and examples—collected and developed over many years of Waldorf classroom experience—show teachers, parents, and students how to learn to draw simply and naturally, as a child would learn to draw.
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Sharifa Oppenheimer balances a theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and tips that can transform family life. Readers will learn how to create the regular life rhythms needed to establish a foundation for learning; how to design indoor play environments that allow children the broadest development of skills; and how to create outdoor play spaces that encourage vigorous movement and a wide sensory palette.
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Teaching Spanish in Waldorf Schools: A Manual for All Language Teachers
Elena Forrer
Based on numerous lectures presented to biodynamic gardeners, farmers, and winemakers, the author presents his views within a structure of Goethean observation, alchemical language, and the classic four elements, all based on the work of Rudolf Steiner and other pioneers in this field, as well as his own many years of interest in biodynamic methods, both conceptual and practical.
Educating for Balance and Resilience
Developmental Movement, Drawing, and Painting in Waldorf Education
Jeff Tunkey
There is growing recognition in educational circles that helping children to build the skills they need to thrive in adult life is as important as content delivery linked to achievements on benchmark tests. These important skills include communication, persistence in the face of challenge, adaptability, teamwork, good manners, self-control, responsibility, and punctuality.
Rhythms of Learning
What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers
Rudolf Steiner
Roberto Trostli has selected the works that best illustrate the fundamentals of Waldorf education. In each chapter, Trostli explains Steiner’s concepts and describes how they work in the contemporary Waldorf classroom. We learn how the teacher–child relationship and the Waldorf school curriculum changes as the students progress from kindergarten through high school.
Growing Sustainable Children
A Garden Teacher’s Guide
Ronni Sands and Willow Summer
With its useful overviews of the history of gardening education and the evolving consciousness of children, and its detailed age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and kindergarten through high school, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone already teaching in a gardening program, for those planning on starting such a program, or for anyone working with children in a garden or other outdoor setting as a homeschooler, community organizer, or friend of the Earth.
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
Paths and Goals of the Spiritual Human Being
Life Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science
14 lectures, various cities, Jan. 1 – Dec. 27, 1910 (CW 125)
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And what happens in science? Is comfort found in what science has brought us? Let us fully acknowledge the beneficial effect of science, but we must not forget one thing. How much of the purely physical pain which human beings have had to suffer since prehistoric times has been relieved? People have certainly not become stronger and healthier since then. Of course there are many medicines which provide relief. But we have to draw attention to a contradiction here. External science believes that nothing can be lost. When we rub something, for example, the energy occurs as heat. Something that disappears reappears as a different kind of energy. Analgesics reduce pain and people talk as if the pain had disappeared. Here there is a contradiction with that simple law. When the pain disappears, it reappears somewhere else. We can alleviate as much external pain as we want, it is transformed into soul pain. And people are not aware that these things are connected with the relief of outer pain. This should not prevent us from doing what we think necessary to relieve outer pain, but we have to learn to understand the connections and not indulge in illusions in the spiritual field.
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of June 2, 1910, in Paths and Goals of the Spiritual Human Being (CW 125)
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