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That is why people who attended Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf school perform so well in College. It is a school that DOES NOT give grades to students. And the teach write feed back to the students based on whole aspects of their development including social interaction. When college get ride of tests and grade will be a good start.

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If colleges get rid of grades, however will Peter Thiel know which hedge fund analysts to hire?

well, business school like wharton prohibits employers to ask about their graduate's grade anyway.

That's likely because they promote an image that all their students are perfect. It's also possible, but doubtful, thatthey believe class grades are personal development tools, not external qualifications.

I like the no-grades aspect of it, but I'm pretty turned off by the way they pressure parents to avoid having computers and recorded media around children - and that they even delay learning how to read - and that the prohibition is for religious reasons that they don't usually discuss in public.

interesting, I know they explore much on spirituality, but I didn't realize wardorf school is religiously related.

I do think reading and technology are not important in education. We people retain information far better through audio vs reading. See research from University of Regensburg http://www.linguatec.de/products/tts/references/uni_regensbu...

Did you listen to that page?

"The best results were achieved by experimentees who read and listened to a text simultaneously."

Also, that page doesn't cite the research its claims rely on.

Hello fellow waldorf student in the wild! Remember that most waldorf schools in the country DO grade in highschool. However it is process that allows for more feedback and conversation about your performance.

Brought up in China. I was NOT fortunate enough to have being a waldorf student myself. But my various experiences in life have lead me to meet many graduates and teacher of waldorf school. So far all of them I meet a incredibly intelligent and very nice to around.

Because Waldorf is great, or because children from rich families that pay for private school tend to be intelligent?

some of these family are in Denmark, which has a very egalitarian structure. But yes, family environment and friends circle counts a lot as well. Which brings me back to it is more important to have a good environment than learning any information. All that can be learn on the job.

I'm not familiar with this form of education, but are the students of these schools actually representative of the population as a whole?

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