Educational Philosophy
The Project is based on three inter-related philosophical principles:
1) Experiential Education
In Experiential Education the intent is not to impose a specific set of facts or information, but to provide students with a broad range of practical and academic experiences that allow them to come to their own cognitive understanding via their senses and feelings.
“Learning is experience, everything else is just information.” - Albert Einstein
“Experiential Learning is the process of actively engaging students in an experience that will have real consequences. Students make discoveries and experiment with knowledge themselves instead of just learning or reading about the experience of others. Students also reflect on their experiences thus developing new skills, new attitudes and new theories or ways of thinking.” - Kraft & Sakof
2) Steiner Educational Paradigm
The healthy evolution of society depends upon each generation being able to transform the world in accordance with its true intentions. Therefore education should empower individuals to take initiative and responsibility.
“We shouldn’t ask: what does a person need to know or be able to do in order to fit into an existing social order? Rather we should ask: what lies in each person and what can be developed in him or her? Only then will it be possible to direct the new qualities of each emerging generation into society. Society will then become what young people, as whole human beings, make out of the existing social conditions.” - Rudolf Steiner
3) Sustainability
True sustainability begins with an awareness and systemic understanding of the natural world. Sustainability requires an implicit understanding of natural cycles, human nature, social systems and economics.
"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment." - Rene Dubos
The Project is based on three inter-related philosophical principles:
1) Experiential Education
In Experiential Education the intent is not to impose a specific set of facts or information, but to provide students with a broad range of practical and academic experiences that allow them to come to their own cognitive understanding via their senses and feelings.
“Learning is experience, everything else is just information.” - Albert Einstein
“Experiential Learning is the process of actively engaging students in an experience that will have real consequences. Students make discoveries and experiment with knowledge themselves instead of just learning or reading about the experience of others. Students also reflect on their experiences thus developing new skills, new attitudes and new theories or ways of thinking.” - Kraft & Sakof
2) Steiner Educational Paradigm
The healthy evolution of society depends upon each generation being able to transform the world in accordance with its true intentions. Therefore education should empower individuals to take initiative and responsibility.
“We shouldn’t ask: what does a person need to know or be able to do in order to fit into an existing social order? Rather we should ask: what lies in each person and what can be developed in him or her? Only then will it be possible to direct the new qualities of each emerging generation into society. Society will then become what young people, as whole human beings, make out of the existing social conditions.” - Rudolf Steiner
3) Sustainability
True sustainability begins with an awareness and systemic understanding of the natural world. Sustainability requires an implicit understanding of natural cycles, human nature, social systems and economics.
"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment." - Rene Dubos
