The Rose Ceremony and Human Development

from The Denver Waldorf School Podcast Hosted by Sarah Box

This week Education Director Vernon Dewey joins us as he paints a picture of the Rose Ceremony, a lovely tradition of Waldorf schools that book end the school year. It is an event that marks the transition from one stage of life to another. Foundational to Waldorf education is the understanding of human development and its phases. One principle of human development is the seven year phases of life: birth to 7, 7 to 14, 14, to 21. In the Rose Ceremony, we see each of these phases represented as the kindergartener enters 1st Grade, the 8th Grader enters high school, and the Senior enters adulthood. Three ideals live within each seven year period: goodness, beauty, and truth. He shares how Waldorf education cultivates in our students the ability to not only sense goodness, beauty, and truth, but also to be bearers of them out in the world.

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