As I've mentioned before on Splice, my eight-year-old son currently goes to a Waldorf private school. Waldorf is an educational program/philosophy conceived of by German New Age hippie Rudolf Steiner. A friend of mine aptly summed up Steiner's outlook with the phrase "gnomes good, television bad." Steiner and his acolytes are anti-media, pro-fairy, and pro-happy-children-frolicking. The school my son attends (Urban Prairie Waldorf) is happily not too crazed about the anti-media bit, but are very much for the frolicking (with or without gnomes.)
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