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Today, employees at large companies like Apple, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo, think it may seem strange that modern technology is harming the child. That’s why many of them send their children to a school called Waldorf of the Peninsula, which dispenses with computers and others “necessary” attributes of modern education, and this despite There are many interesting facts about computers.
Computers here are replaced with chalk boards, the Internet is shelving with fiction and encyclopedias, and instead students write keyboards with pencils and pens on paper. Here monitors are forbidden, buttons are forbidden, there is no radio, no television, here children embroider with needles and sculpt crafts from clay … Simple and somewhat from our already rather perverse point of view, an old-fashioned school that aims to teach child do without modern technology. You may the question arises – why raise children like savages, depriving them all the benefits and pleasures that the 21st century has given us?
Adherents of such an educational methodology explain that computers deprive the child of imagination, interfere with the development of communication skills with peers, do not allow him to concentrate normally, without speaking already about the emergence of addictions, and also cause capital damage health: the child’s nervous system suffers, hearing and vision deteriorate and musculoskeletal system.
Once a teacher in high school, and now a professor at the prestigious Furman University Paul Thomas wrote 12 volumes on the Western system education. In his books, he repeatedly focused on that computers in the educational process should be used as possible less often, because education, according to him, is, first of all, experience, experience of communication of the child with people of his age and older. Floor Thomas is convinced that the main task of the modern school is guide children in life, help them grow up, become responsible and independent. And technology in this case this only gets in the way.
The students of Waldorf of the Peninsula do not suffer from lack of high-tech inventions, rather the opposite – they glad that they are not like their peers, relatives and acquaintances, who can’t live a day without the Internet, cellular communications, microwave and evening TV shows. Eleven year old student school, Orad Kamkar, tells: when on weekends he visited their cousins and brothers then hoped that together they will play in the courtyard or on the living room carpet. But instead teens buried in their tablets and phones, forgetting everything on light and ceasing to pay attention to each other. The boy had shake their hands and remind – I’m here.
