Why do Waldorf schools recommend limiting television, videos, and other media for young children?
A central aim of Waldorf Education is to stimulate the healthy development of the child’s own imagination. Waldorf teachers are concerned that electronic media hampers the development of children’s imagination. They are concerned about the physical effects of the medium on the developing child as well as the content of much of the programming. There is considerable broader research to substantiate these concerns. See: Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don’t Think by Jane Healy; Failure To Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds For Better and Worse by Jane Healy; Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander; The Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn; and Evolution’s End: Claiming The Potential of Our Intelligence by Joseph Chilton Pearce Why are there no computers in the classrooms? Waldorf teachers feel the appropriate age for computer use in the classroom and by students is in high school. We feel it is more important for students to have the opportunity to inter
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