Thank you for sharing your valuable time, spirit and amazing consciousness. You have rescued my faith in the Waldorf world!
The live education material has been a deep source of nourishment for me personally, which allows me to sustain my deep commitment to educate my children at home. The course helps me to impart to my children a living connection to the world which R. Steiner intended. It's concise and beautiful presentation lets me teach a complete holistic lesson rather than preparing my own lesson from numerous sources.
I wanted to take a moment to thank you again, I am sure I'm beginning to sound like a skipping record. I felt I would be able to articulate my true gratitude better if I allowed myself time to be still and absorb the information you both relayed to our group about Waldorf inspired curriculum and pedagogy (thanks for the new word) that seem to bind the concepts of each lesson to the student for life.
Our area has needed additional options in education for decades. I appreciate what I consider your "back to basics" approach to mentoring children and parents in their journey toward educational enlightenment and freedom. In my estimation, the three fold approach to education will ensure that children of every intelligence will glean the maximum from each lesson, and will in essence set them up to seek out educational experiences in their own environments.
I find myself in the state of W.onder A.we & R.everence each time I think about our involvement in "The Lighthouse School". This is the first time I have felt comfortable with the concept of W.A.R.. I do realize you and yours are not Rudolph Steiner and that this Philosophy for teaching is not new. But for your part in bringing it to this community and to my family, I would like to thank you. It is as if the sun has shown through the educational fog that has hung over this area since the inception of forced education.
We are not only Blessed but also thankful.
Thank you Live Education for your curriculum. I have spent the summer studying and immersing myself in as many books as possible on Waldorf education. I was really making an effort to understand form drawing and the purpose for doing it. I spent a week at RSC taking classes with teachers who would be teaching first grade in the fall. At the end of that week, I still felt very unclear about form drawing. When I received the grade one Live Education material, I immediately began reading the form drawing book. After just a short time reading, I had one of those moments when all the pieces come together and form drawing finally made sense!
In appreciation,
Filling out the questionnaire alone has been an enriching experience. Just spending time thinking deeply about my children over the course of three days and filling the questionnaire out as things came to me made me know and appreciate my two very different children more deeply than I could have imagined. Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
Just wanted to provide yet another testimonial for your service. The boys (aged 10 and 12 years) and I are just about half way through our second year of using your homeschooling courses. The boys themselves have asked to continue homeschooling rather than attending local school . I know that their hearts minds and spirits are being opened and developed through use of these materials and exposure to the subject matter that they cover.
An added gift is that I have found myself as well. Having gone through conventional schooling in public schools in Canada and later Univeristies in Canada America and Australia - I never had the opportunity to explore these subjects through the Steiner approach- all three of us learn together.
We are particularly enjoying the Geometry . I had feared that for two active boys it would be difficult for them to bring the necessary focus to geometry lessons - but my happy experience has been that these lessons actually help them to settle down focus and concentrate and we invariably have a more peaceful and pleasant time on the geometry afternoons.
Keep doing what you are doing so well- bringing alternative education to families like ours.
All the best
Feeling rather hopeless at one point in our new adventure with homeschooling, I longed for some inspiration. Literally the day that our live-education curriculum arrived, the sun rays started shining through. I cannot believe what a difference one week has made. My children are happy, enthusiastic to learn and excited. My son Aaron, once very negative about learning and bored, looks forward to his school day with renewed energy. We understand rhythm now... We now know the meaning of live education because we do it with great feeling minute by minute, day by day. Thank you Rainbow.
Dear Rainbow, Just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying using the books you sent. I meant to write a thank you for them earlier, but this has been such a full few weeks for me. ...The books have been such an incredible blessing. I do not know what I would have done without your help. Thank you so much.
I have been working with the Live Education materials this past year and have been delighted that both the materials and the consulting services have surpassed my expectations!