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Excerpted from "Life After Waldorf High School"
By Abraham Enten

"Education Toward Freedom" is one of the most important principles of Waldorf Education. Many schools use this phrase as a motto or as a key principle in describing themselves in brochures and other public material.

Walk into a Waldorf-inspired classroom and you will be struck by a fragrant presence of the arts. Watercolor paintings hanging on their drying racks, colored pencils neatly tucked into a student knit pouch, and recorders humming as a bird perches outside the window on the class birdhouse – all these and more are part of specialties taught at appropriate times throughout the elementary and middle school years. Arts are also woven into everyday curriculum. Classroom activities such as circle time and main lesson books have central roles in student’s learning. Main lesson books are the most commonly used evaluation tool for teachers and student’s palette for displaying their achievements. Here, students capture lesson content and expressively record their day’s learning. Yes, even a child’s ‘textbook’ is an artistic expression and is beautiful to experience.