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What are the distinctive features that make Steiner education different? Important features of the curriculum make the distinction and both the curriculum content and the way in which it is delivered assist in the natural process of human development. A holistic approach towards a healthy body, healthy feeling life and healthy thinking is paramount. Rudolf Steiner identified the process of human development in seven year stages. We are primarily concerned with the first two of these stages. In the first phase, we educate through imitation to nurture the development of the body and the will. In the second seven years, we educate through the feeling life of the child and their imagination. We seek not merely to impart knowledge, but to help form the capacity for thinking itself. Art in many forms - poetry, drama, painting, drawing, sculpture, music, singing and movement - is an integral part of the main intellectual and academic learning and is not considered a decorative activity
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