By Kaeli Twigg-Smith
I am 16, and spent a good 13 years of my life attending the White Mountain Waldorf School in Albany. My time at Waldorf was the best. All of the people there are kind, loving, helpful and truly inspiring. I learned many things there, academically and otherwise.
At Waldorf I learned math through stories of gnomes, German through songs, and I taught myself to read with little help. In history I studied all sorts of mythologies, eras and peoples. My teachers made learning fun and enjoyable.
At this wonderful place I was also educated in many things most other schools don't teach. I was taught to hike and camp at a young age, I love the outdoors. Every week, we had a new chore and each person had to do their share to clean the room; we learned to be respectful and respectable. Each year, we were brought on a trip a few nights long, and from this I learned to spend time away from home.
Outside of my schoolwork, I was taught many skills as well. As a young child I had to discover how to work out a problem with my peers with words and not actions. A bit later, I mastered the art of compromise. I was schooled in eye contact, posture, the polite way to talk to people and many other skills useful in daily life. Another very important aspect of Waldorf education is thinking for yourself and finding a perspective no one else has thought of before, and pursuing that view of whatever it is that you are thinking about.
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I am 16, and spent a good 13 years of my life attending the White Mountain Waldorf School in Albany. My time at Waldorf was the best. All of the people there are kind, loving, helpful and truly inspiring. I learned many things there, academically and otherwise.
At Waldorf I learned math through stories of gnomes, German through songs, and I taught myself to read with little help. In history I studied all sorts of mythologies, eras and peoples. My teachers made learning fun and enjoyable.
At this wonderful place I was also educated in many things most other schools don't teach. I was taught to hike and camp at a young age, I love the outdoors. Every week, we had a new chore and each person had to do their share to clean the room; we learned to be respectful and respectable. Each year, we were brought on a trip a few nights long, and from this I learned to spend time away from home.
Outside of my schoolwork, I was taught many skills as well. As a young child I had to discover how to work out a problem with my peers with words and not actions. A bit later, I mastered the art of compromise. I was schooled in eye contact, posture, the polite way to talk to people and many other skills useful in daily life. Another very important aspect of Waldorf education is thinking for yourself and finding a perspective no one else has thought of before, and pursuing that view of whatever it is that you are thinking about.
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