Education - Art - Music
in the Steiner Waldorf tradition
If one really looks into life today one will find that the period between the age of imitation and the age at which the human being can receive knowledge in the form of truth must be filled if humanity is not to pine away. This must be done by giving the human being with artistic beauty what he needs for head, heart and will. The seven-foldness of grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music, grew out of an older cultural order; it was of the nature of art. Today too we need art but, according to the demands of the consciousness soul, it must not be specialized in the way of the Seven Liberal Arts. During the primary school age and far beyond it, for as long as education holds good, the whole teaching must be warmed through and fired by the artistic element. During the primary school years everything must be steeped in beauty, and in later years beauty must rule as the interpreter of truth.
- Rudolf Steiner
Ramidoro is a community of families and teachers based in Selargius, near Cagliari in Sardinia. We accompany children from Class 1 to Class 8 - primary and lower secondary age - along an educational path inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner: the same approach that Waldorf schools all over the world grew out of. We are not a school in the usual sense: we are a parent-led education project. It is the families themselves, joined together in an association, who choose and sustain this path, entrusting their children each day to teachers who stay with them as they grow. There is time to get ready without hurry, learning happens by doing, and art, music, work with the hands and time spent outdoors all have their place.
What makes our path different
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One class teacher stays with the same class from Class 1 to Class 8, and comes to know every single child.
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Subjects are taught in main lesson blocks: one subject at a time, in depth, for several weeks running, instead of jumping from one to the next every hour.
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There are no marks and no competition: assessment is a careful account of how each child is growing.
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Art, music, movement and handwork are not side subjects: they are part of how everything is learnt.
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Two foreign languages, English and German, are taught from Class 1 onwards.
Where to start
If you want to understand how we work, start with Steiner Waldorf education and A day and its rhythm. If you are thinking about where to enrol your child, the Enrolment and visits section explains how parent-led education works in Italy and how to get in touch with us.
In evidenza a Ramidoro
