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Rudolf Steiner (1861-192?)

• Those children who have been culturally left behind, should not only receive the most properly professional educational support, but should be specially looked after for their overall growth and development.

• A teacher ought to be sensitive to the uniqueness of every child. He must drop the expectations that all children must be alike.

• A teacher must strive to discover the special traits of every child’s personality. Then he can gauge each student. Only then can the teacher expect to be able to fully develop competencies of every child.

• If every child is helped in realizing its full potential by giving it individual attention, it will sense that it is being attended to, that it is being well looked after, that it is being appreciated and – finally, that it is being empowered.

• It is only when the importance of mutual understanding is realized that the education leading man to freedom and humanity will emerge.

• Irrespective of age, every person possesses a completely individual and unique understanding of the world – and we must be careful not to disturb that understanding by insistence on specific abilities or competencies through selective education.

• At any age of a child, the child must be helped to reach the optimum level of its competency suitable for that age.

• For every kind of ability, there is an appropriate age at which to achieve it – be it climbing up a tree or appreciating a poem. We must ensure that students are exposed to such experiences at the right time in full measure.

• If students are carefully exposed to experiences appropriate to their age, they will enjoy life, rich with experiences so important for their future.

• History of mankind shows that all the highly evolved cultures have thrived on cooperation – not on competition. Similarly, competition has limited importance in education. Competition gives marks, assigns ranks or distributes prizes. But sadly, this way, ‘the understanding of a subject’ degenerates into becoming merely a means to gaining these things.

• Students must learn to acknowledge and appreciate the excellence in others – in routine matters or in moral or physical or artistic matters. He must realize and be able to enjoy the rich variety of humanity even in his own class.

• In order to look forward to the creation of a happy social life, every student must learn to respect others and bonds of cooperation between persons must be strengthened.

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