The Genius of Home: Teaching Your Children at Home with the Waldorf Curriculum

To educate means to draw forth (Latin, educare: to lead, to bring up); the teacher must draw forth, but, also, must meet the new individual at her or his own level. But what does the teacher draw forth from the child? Is the teacher like the sun that draws forth the plants? Children do grow up, but at the same time, they come down. What if one is teaching one's own children?

There are as many possible approaches to teaching children at home, that is, "homeschooling", as there are homes and ...