Merriconeag Waldorf High School Goes International

It is a big pleasure for the Merriconeag Waldorf High School being a part of international movement. This winter, it is a breaking new ground for Merriconeag’s exchange program on the beginning of December 30 when Liza Simmons and Cyrus Fenderson become their first-ever exchange students to France.

The two students have the opportunity to attend the Ecole Perceval in Chatou, near Paris, for a two-month sojourn then next will host Amelie Martineau and Estelle Douchet this spring. In the addition on the program, as the time they return from the holidays, Benjamin McCrave and his family will host Adrien Strasburger until mid-March at the time that Benjamin and Adrien will travel together back to France, there to attend also the Ecole Perceval until late May.

For three months, Jacob Kolda’s family will be hosting Rafael Schiafone this coming February after which Jacob will fly to Germany towards the end of the school year and spend much of the summer with the Schiafones. Merriconeag Waldorf High School hopes that this flurry of exchanges is only the beginning of ongoing endless opportunities for future generations of Merriconeag high school students to experience the different way of learning with Waldorf School.

Knowing What Waldorf Education All About

What is Waldorf Education? Haven’t heard of it yet? Well, it started back way in 1920’s and was developed by Rudolf Steiner in Europe. And recently, it establishes more than 500 schools worldwide. Its schools have been in North America for 75 years.

It aims to develop more standardized education than modern school systems that are mostly known of. They are viewing of a preparation of the young adults to become more prepared to face adulthood. With their views they are utterly opposed to the Austrian system, which forms the basis of most public schools.

Their views are based in the holistic human approach that includes body, soul and spirit as man’s components, wherein they involved every man’s aspect as elements of development. They focus on these goals to enhance and put a harmonious relationship among one’s intellect, artistic and spiritual, thus enable to support in the utilization of these in order to promote one’s value of autonomy and inculcate on them the sense of independence.