Restoring Childhood Magic With A Waldorf Education | Acorn Nature School
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
5 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
If you're fascinated by alternative forms of childhood education, you will love this interview with Star Johnson and Emilirose Nofi, the founders of Acorn School, a nature-based Waldorf homeschool enrichment program in Arizona. Hear discussions comparing Montessori and Charlotte Mason methods to Waldorf, what specifically kids are missing out on in a public school setting, and how to make your child's education more magical and less rigid.
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| 0:00.0 | I do not care if they are reading or not before the age of like eight years old. |
| 0:04.8 | I don't care. |
| 0:05.5 | Personally, I don't. |
| 0:06.9 | That irks so many moms across America. |
| 0:11.1 | Your child should be playing outside in nature until they are seven. |
| 0:14.0 | When you hear a story, it makes you feel something. |
| 0:16.2 | When you just read the letter A and you do a worksheet, you're not feeling anything. |
| 0:19.6 | You're feeling bored. |
| 0:20.6 | There's something about Waldorf education. |
| 0:23.5 | It's just magic. |
| 0:25.8 | Acorn School is doing the art, the beeswax, the songs, the storytelling, the magic of |
| 0:32.1 | being in nature with other children. |
| 0:33.9 | Has public school snuffed out childhood in this country? |
| 0:37.0 | Children have no time to be children. |
| 0:39.2 | Make children children again. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you. When was the last time you pictured learning as beautiful? |
| 1:12.6 | When someone says classroom, what do you picture? Do you imagine children sitting at desks quietly, walking in straight lines, staring at beige walls? Or do you picture |
| 1:18.4 | colorful ribbons and fairy tales, imaginative play, nature, climbing trees, singing songs |
| 1:26.0 | around a campfire, baking bread or running barefoot through a meadow |
| 1:29.9 | with the wind blowing through your hair. Perhaps you feel like the ladder is dead and gone. |
| 1:35.7 | That sort of education doesn't exist in America anymore. It's a relic of the past. What if I told you |
| 1:41.1 | it does? In small little pockets across the country, Waldorf-style nature schools are popping up, |
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