The Middle School Curriculum

Read a general overview of the Waldorf curriculum here.

Waldorf education has been an important model of holistic education for (more than) a century.
It is one of the very few forms of education that acknowledges the soul-life of children and nurtures that life.
It is truly an education for the whole child …
– Jack Miller, Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto

Waldorf students don’t use textbooks for the first five years of school. They make their own and continue to do so even when textbooks are introduced. By creating their own lesson books, Waldorf students come to ‘own’ the information and ideas that they study.