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		<description><![CDATA[Educating the Whole Child
by Claudia M. Lenart
&#8220;I like to use the analogy of a Waldorf School as a garden and the teacher as the gardener. Our job is not to turn a cabbage into a rose or a rose into a cabbage, but to weed and mulch so the cabbage is the healthiest and best [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-354" style="margin: 8px;" title="book9knitting" src="http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/book9knitting.jpg" alt="book9knitting" width="75" height="107" />&#8220;I like to use the analogy of a Waldorf School as a garden and the teacher as the gardener. Our job is not to turn a cabbage into a rose or a rose into a cabbage, but to weed and mulch so the cabbage is the healthiest and best you’ve ever seen and the rose is the most beautiful and the best you’ve ever seen,&#8221; says Susan Stevenson, a teacher at Chicago Waldorf School.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the chief tasks of Waldorf education is to bring life to knowledge,&#8221; said Waldorf education founder Rudolf Steiner, in &#8220;Deeper Insights into Education.&#8221; He believed teaching could never be</p>
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