Tokyo Kenji-no Gakko Waldorf School
NPO Corporation Tokyo Kenji-no Gakko Waldorf School
“An individual cannot be happy unless the entire world is happy”--Miyazawa Kenji
We aim to create a new school for the 21st century through the close cooperation of parents, teachers and neighbours.
" Have I stopped growing? Or have you been growing so fast?”- I often cannot but ask myself this question while teaching the children at Kenji-no Gakko. Day by day, I see the children growing; I can see the slightest changes in their behaviour. It really moves me. For example, a child will instantly give a helping hand, when she finds someone in need. I feel delighted that I can teach these children. How wonderful! The teachers and parents are often surprised to see how dramatically the children have changed with the support and guidance of the adults in the school.
The teachers of Waldorf education can see their children develop in the kindergarten, and then continue to grow in classes from 1 to 12. How happy we are! “That boy has been steady and confident lately.” “This boy has proved to be kind to other children, hasn’t he?” “Her face has been beaming.” Such conversations take place daily among the teachers and parents. We are very happy that we can create, and share this kind of place!
Miyazawa Kenji has been dead for 74 years. He showed his ideas for humanity and the future of the world in.
“Elements of Farmers’Art”, as well as his literary works. His warnings and advice sound even more urgent to us today. He said, “An individual cannot be happy unless the entire world is happy.” How many times we have listened to and recited this line! Yet, now that the solutions for our environmental and political challenges are impossible to achieve without global cooperation, his words shine again, and move us much more deeply.
We have found it continually more evident that Waldorf education is ideal for the realization of Kenji’s ideas.
The founder of NPO Corporation,
Tokyo Kenji-no Gakko, Waldorf School
Toriyama, Toshiko
