We didn't notice either, because I never looked at their school materials that closely, because the children never got much homework. Recent fifth-grade history workbooks from different Waldorf schools. We discover teaching about human development unknown in the history lessons of public schools. The Aryans, Waldorf curriculum declares, left the sinking continent of Atlantic to found many high cultures. Outside observers may see only the teaching of a little-known myth.
Experts see it differently.
The contents of the workbooks show, they say, that the children are being taught mythology as historical fact and that a development theory placing special emphasis on Aryans is pedagogically untenable. With a clear advantage to our belonging, or supposed belonging, one must say, to the Aryan race, which Waldorf continues to treat as something that really existed. Hildegard Ernst trains history teachers for public schools. We present her with the Waldorf teaching materials. In the opinion of some parents, these attitudes can also be found in daily school life, with dreadful consequences.