Waldorf: People-oriented education

Wen/Hu and since 2004, when the first Waldorf kindergartens and schools in mainland China were settled in Chengdu, more than 120 Waldorf kindergartens and 7 Waldorf primary school practice teams have taken root in other provinces and cities.　　A number of Chinese books related to Waldorf education have been published in the country, and educational seminars and teacher training are continuing. Waldorf education, English "Waldorf education", or "Steiner education", is by Austrian philosopher, scientist Dr. Rudolph Sterner (Dr Rudolf Steiner, 1861-1925) People Chi Co the thought development of human-oriented education. Dr. Sterner's ideas also guide various fields of social life such as bio-active organic agriculture (biodynamic agriculture), medicine, economics, art, architecture, drama, Dance (Eurythmy).　　The practice of human intelligence is spread all over the world and has a revolutionary influence on culture and ecology. In a Waldorf education exhibition held in Geneva in 1994, UNESCO said, "according to the specific examples of the schools advocating the Waldorf education concept, the most attractive to visitors is the fact that the Waldorf school shows the teaching, and they provide a good reference to the current education that is full of contradictions." Each of their instances is unique and cannot be mechanically followed. This educational philosophy of direct contact with real life, and the results of this educational practice, is very effective for many countries and their educational administrators who are plagued by weariness, violence, vandalism, dropout and other serious problems in school and beyond. "School (Nursery) Agricultural Park every Waldorf school or kindergarten has an organic agricultural park, different schools, the conditions are not the same, the size of the agricultural park are different." In a Waldorf school in the city, some farms are small, with flowers, vegetables, herbs, small amounts of berries and shrubs, keep some small animals such as chickens and rabbits; Waldorf schools in suburban or rural areas are larger, not only by planting many flowers, vegetables, herbs, berries, shrubs and fruit trees, but also by planting grains, beekeeping, or raising sheep, cows, horses,　　Donkeys and other larger animals, and some schools even have a forest or a dependent farm. The schools in European countries have one or more greenhouse or greenhouses, used in early spring nursery and summer tomato, pepper, cucumber, eggplant, such as warm-warming crops, the process of farming will never apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The gardening teacher will introduce the rubbish classification to the students, collect the peel, the kitchen residue, the leaves, the weeds, the animal excrement to make the compost. Let the things that are produced from the land as far back as possible, circulate, nourishing.　　Although there are small worms to patronize, but not a problem, the school farm plantations small and extremely diverse. In the school farm, students under the guidance of the gardening teacher to practice, experience human beings on the Earth's most basic production activities, agricultural park is the students learnThe perfect place to learn plants, animals, seasons, climate, environment and ecology. "Our strawberries are harvested!" "Today two little goats are born, so cute!" "The students often report to the family about the farm and take their parents or their friends to see the food they plant and the animals they help to care for," he said.　　The garden is a vibrant place on campus. On holidays, many schools recruit parents and volunteers to take turns taking care of the animals and plants in the farm, sharing the work of the gardening teacher, or watering the vegetables or flowers or feeding the sheep or combing the horses and milking the cows.　　As a holiday farmer, healthy and happy! What is produced in the garden, the gardening teacher will assign one part to the working students, teachers and parents volunteer, and the rest arranges the students to the school stalls or to sell in the celebration activities.　　Income is used for the operation of a farming garden. Agricultural garden classrooms and ordinary classrooms are the same blackboard, tables and chairs, not the same is the agricultural garden classroom and kitchen utensils and tableware. The gardening teacher led the students here to put the farm harvest food on the table. Pumpkin soup, baked potatoes, apple pie, salad, enjoy the fresh harvest of organic fruits and vegetables and the happiness after labor, enjoyable! Berries, raspberries, blackcurrant, and currants are harvested and processed into jam in agricultural garden classrooms, except for fresh food.　　Many agricultural garden classrooms are equipped with a dryer, dried herbs, dried flowers and dried fruit. Gardening is a lot of time outdoors, when it's cold or raining, when you can't work outdoors, do some indoor work in the garden Room, grind vanilla salt, bag vanilla, and design labels and instructions for the product. In the winter gardening class, the teacher will also teach students to use branches, leaves, dried flowers, pine cones and other Christmas decorations. The school farm that keeps bees will also make candles out of beeswax in the winter.　　Many agricultural garden education has a firewood fire oven, while working, while baking cookies or cakes, is very warm. The table in the Agricultural garden classroom is both a desk and a table. In order to keep the agricultural garden classroom clean and tidy, many schools in the agricultural garden classroom outside the establishment of a special farm tools room, a variety of farm tools, hoes, shovels, rakes, sickle, branch shears, trolley, gloves, hats, rain boots, first-aid boxes are also ready.