“If a child is given a textbook by someone else, like in regular schools, I think that he will not look at it as something special for him. But if he, by himself, prepares and creates his own book, I think that he will learn much better. And, I think that he will feel ‘this is my baby, this is what I created, this is what I did this year, and this is what I learned, and I’m proud of it. There are no marks or negative things that somebody wrote about me, and I feel like I’m getting better and better.’ This is part of why I think that Tamrat El Zeitoun is a special school.’”
Waldorf at work and play ...
A group of American Waldorf high school students and teachers visited Tamrat El Zeitoun for a week of service in June 2014 with World Wise Adventures and produced this video for the school.
TAMRAT EL ZEITOUN, Fruit of the Olive Tree, is the first Arab Waldorf School in Israel. With Muslim, Christian and Druze children together in the same classrooms, Tamrat El Zeitoun demonstrates how Waldorf education can be integrated into an Arab community.