waldorf research, articles and opinions
Children at Play: An American History
The tension between how children spend their free time and how adults want them to spend it runs through Howard P. Chudacoff’s new book, “Children at Play: An American History†(New York University Press), like a yellow line smack down the middle of a highway. “Kids should have their own world, and parents are nuisances,†said Mr. Chudacoff, a professor of history at Brown University.
Learning to Read and Write in Waldorf School
This is a link to an article published from the publisher SteinerBooks that discusses a book called, the Living Alphabet, but in the process explains how reading and writing are taught in Waldorf Schools.
Strangers in Our Homes: TV and Our Children's Minds
by Susan R. Johnson, M.D.
© Susan R. Johnson, M.D., 1999.
Duplication and redistribution of unbound paper copies permitted.
TV rots the senses in the head!
It kills the imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind.
He can no longer understand a fantasy,
A fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
-- an excerpt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, 1964
