Word: waldorf
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...While in New York, she invited Cowles to a t?te-?-t?te dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. In his memoirs, which have never before been made public, Cowles relates how Madame Chiang instructed him to spend whatever was necessary to get Willkie the Republican nomination...
...Good enough. My son is in eighth grade and he already knows he wants to go to Yale. Should I send him to Waldorf high school...
...questions haven’t stopped, not since December of my senior year, when that acceptance letter fell through a slit in our front door. Long Island is flush with stellar public schools, and it isn’t easy to justify the more radical aspects of Waldorf education—for example, the aversion to competition, the policy on teaching reading relatively late in child development—in an increasingly accelerated society. Ironically, the fact that I go to Harvard—according to my high school principal, the first grad to do so since the mid-1970s?...
...receives most of these queries, asks me what she should tell them, these parents kept awake nights by the fear that they’re spending thousands of dollars a year for their child to be backward. Should she tell them I learned to read before I came to Waldorf? That in the hours that my friends learned the alphabet through the shapes of animals, I had a book hidden under my desk? That I regularly complain about the grievous gaps in my high school education...
...usually tell them that Waldorf helped bring me to Harvard, not by academic preparation—most classes were, quite frankly, laughable compared to the rigor experienced by many of my peers here—but by freeing me to explore my interests and giving me an innovative, holistic view on education. Still, I feel I should be honest with them. The social and intellectual opportunities are comparatively limited. If you’re not built for it, you may go crazy...