Reading instruction, as such, is deferred. Instead, writing is taught first. During the first grade year the children explore how our alphabet came about, discovering, as the ancients did, how each letter’s form evolved out of a pictograph. Writing thus evolves out of the children’s art, and their ability to read likewise evolves as a natural and, indeed, comparatively effortless stage of their mastery of language.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. We should educate children so that all their concepts are capable of growth: that their concepts and will impulses are really alive. This is not easy. But an artistic education succeeds in doing it – Rudolf Steiner
