The first growth stage refers to the period from birth to the age of seven before changing deciduous teeth. At this stage, the life-forming force of children's life is mainly used to build, improve and balance the development of material body and build the material carrier of soul on the earth. At this age, the body grows extremely rapidly. In the child's mind, he and the world are a unity, and everything around him affects his life organization. All this is good and kind to children, who instinctively learn by imitation. If children's intelligence is developed too early, it will overdraw their vitality and affect their overall balanced development. During this period, human development is still in the vegetative stage. When children grow up, they show vegetative characteristics, and everything in nature conforms to children's nature. Pine nuts, stones, shells, branches, flowers and animals are all objects of interest to children, and the configuration of nature is also the original material for children's imagination and concept formation. Animals are also very strong, but they are not dominated by animals. This stage is also the age when children are good at crawling, jumping and moving, because animals crawl, jump and move for the growth of their bodies, not from the desire of animals. Children's active nature comes from the needs of life development. If his essential characteristics are not well protected and developed, it will directly affect the development of his respiratory system, digestive system, excretory system and immune system.
The second growth stage is from the age of seven to adolescence. At this stage (grade one to grade eight), children's life organization is mainly active in the development of sense. The child began to change his deciduous teeth at the age of seven, and the organs and tissues obtained from his mother have been completely updated. The shedding of deciduous teeth and the growth of new teeth are the last steps to form their real bodies, symbolizing the completion of self-construction of spiritual carriers, and the power of life has entered the stage of building astral bodies from the work of building bodies. At this time, great changes have taken place in the whole person, and people's consciousness is independent from the environment, and they begin to observe the outside world with their own eyes, understand with their hearts, and form their own inner world. At the same time, we are also looking for role models and authoritative forces to follow and learn through feelings. Children's sensory ability is faster and deeper than their thinking and analysis ability, so many behaviors seem to lack rational guidance. Rational education is often futile for children of this age. At this time, people's development is in the stage of animal development, and their inner feelings and desires are similar to those of animals, dominating the whole person and showing human animality. He has a strong will to participate in life activities, and expresses and experiences subtle feelings in his mind through feelings.
The third growth stage is adolescence to twenty-one years old. At this time, people's life organization is active in the development of ideology, and children's minds are gradually mature, and they will look at the world and people around them with a critical eye. The world is no longer as perfect and artistic as he imagined, but real. At the same time, personal judgment, independent thoughts and abstract ideals are formed, and the ability to distinguish and judge is enhanced, even stubborn. He is persistent in pursuing the truth of nature, eager to explore the real world, and challenges the authority of teachers and parents in the process of seeking truth, hoping that in this world about himself, human activities will show its truth and rationality.
In this period, the development of human beings has evolved into the development stage of human nature, and self-awareness obviously supports the overall action of human beings. Teenagers have two very important psychological characteristics in this period, one is healthy and precious idealism; The second is fragile inner feelings and inner world. Many young students are very keen to express their inner passion since adolescence. For example, girls will pay more attention to their own image, rebellious and world-weary, while boys will pull a long face, behave badly, be unwilling to pay attention to others and be stubborn. Many times, they built this barrier to protect themselves. In fact, they are looking for role models and pursuing their ideals in their own world. At this time, respecting the individual's independent existence is the premise to help teenagers develop their own essence. If parents or teachers can't treat these independent individuals equally, it means that they will lose the opportunity of self-development. However, teachers' wisdom and knowledge alone cannot fully guide students' individual development, and they must also rely on spiritual strength. Teachers must respect themselves and carry out personal spiritual cultivation, so that teenagers can see that teachers are also making unremitting efforts for self-development, and they will also be inspired.
In children's pre-school stage, that is, the first growth stage, the school design, classroom layout, teaching supplies and student supplies are very elegant, trying to be natural, harmonious and warm, giving children a warm, safe and loving feeling. Because children have a good imagination in such an environment. Children's kindness and beautiful imagination are important factors to ensure that vitality is fully used to construct the body. Education that affects the development of imagination actually affects children's physical and mental health. In order to cultivate children's imagination, children can imagine beautiful and kind things by telling fairy tales, let them play with toys with incomplete shapes and natural pinecones, shells, stones and wood, guide them to exert their infinite imagination, and let them know and understand the earth world at the same time.
The age of seven to fourteen is the second stage of growth. Waldorf School not only has a large number of art education courses, such as art, music, performing arts, drama, handicrafts, horticulture and agronomy, but also teaches mathematics, science, literature, foreign languages, history and humanities through artistic means. And in view of children's willingness to participate in life, let children participate in a variety of daily work and artistic creation. Form a sense of responsibility for life. Their sense of responsibility comes from their feelings and persistent pursuit of beauty, and their feelings of beauty are based on the beautiful and kind imagination of preschool children. Children have good wishes in their hearts, and the school has an environment for them to realize, which can strengthen their feelings and pursuit of beauty. Waldorf education enables students to turn their thoughts and ideas into reality, mainly to give students the opportunity to create things by themselves every day. They write materials under the guidance of teachers, with charts, data and specimens, and then bind them into teaching materials with personal characteristics.
After children enter adolescence, they enter the third growth stage. In view of students' truth-seeking nature, a large number of natural science courses are offered in senior high school, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, agronomy, astrology, meteorology, projection geometry, history of science and humanities courses such as literature, religion, sociology and art history. Through the comprehensive study of art, science and humanities (including religion), we can not only learn scientific knowledge, but also learn universal and eternal truth and explore the problems of life.