An Individual Education

The Queenswood Rudolph Steiner School staged a showing of the children's work in St Andrew's Hall recently. The Queenswood School in Hastings (and the only one in New Zealand) is one of seventy in the world. Their system of education is based on the Rudolph Steiner principle. This is to develop the individuality of each child so that he can take his place in society with confidence in himself as a human being, whatever work he has to do.

The school is not concerned with children of a special class or intellectual ability, but with all children — irrespective, too, of race, sex or denomination — as long as they are edu-cable by ordinary means. One teacher is responsible for one class for the whole six to fourteen years period. A limited number of children to each class also enables the teacher to get to know the children in a way which is impossible for a teacher who only has a group of children for one year.

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Mr John Stevens with some of the woodwork done by the pupils in his class.

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More of the woodwork section on display which shows the practical culmination of the children's prior theory in design and carving.

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Mrs E. Whyte. (left) and Mrs D. Wight with some of the younger classes' forms. It's a pity these are not in colour as the use of colour in these works is most intriguing.