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READ TV Screen Has No Educational Benefits for Young Children By the way, you may or may not want to Google what Steiner thought about the true function of the human heart, or why Steiner believed that the traditional Aryan look was an indication of intelligence. Waldorf advocates delay teaching reading until a child starts getting adult teeth for similar reasons: a child's true consciousness doesn't really develop until that happens.
Here, you get just a little glimpse of some of the more wacky ideas Steiner had, and his advocates still have, about childhood development. "I personally feel that there can be some value in the very occasional educational program (provided it is genuinely educational and not just marketed as such), but ideally this would be delayed until the child has transitioned from the dreamy physical realm of early childhood and is now awakened into the intellectual realm, as Steiner sees it (around age 7 and up)." Dig a little deeper, and you get things like this statement written by a Waldorf advocate: Read their official materials, and you'll see they simply want to follow the guidelines on screen time set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Characterized, outwardly, by their beautiful wool dolls, the aforementioned beeswax crayons, and stories about gnomes and fairies (which, wait for it, Steiner believed were actually real), Waldorf has some funny ideas about technology. Waldorf is the name given to schools that follow the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. Not any old Waldorf school, mind you, but the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, where preschool tuition fees exceed my annual income. If they, who make these things, are so against modern tech for kids, shouldn't the rest of us be paying attention?īack in 2011, the New York Times ran a report on the large number of Silicone Valley tech execs choosing to send their kids to a Waldorf school. People like Steve Jobs obviously know all about the damage iPads and other screens can do to children. If they don't even want to subject their own kids to the rubbish that made them rich enough for you to apparently see them as some kind of authority, why should you feed your offspring a steady diet of brain numbing and obesity risk factors? You've heard this before, haven't you, with the added note that many Silicone Valley tech execs completely agree with the late Steve Jobs? The message is clear. We limit how much technology our kids use at home," Apple co-founder Steve Jobs famously replied to a question about whether his kids loved the iPad. Are screens really that bad for kids, or are we fighting the wrong battle here and have we, ourselves, perhaps become the victim of screens displaying content that lacks nuance? 'But Steve Jobs Banned Screens.'
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