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Kavita Simon grew up in England and has been teaching English and French, mainly at German Waldorf schools, for the past 16 years. Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the first Waldorf school in 1919, turned the tables on the widely accepted idea that languages should be learnt so that pupils can serve and function in the existing social order. In Waldorf language teaching during the first school years, the teacher is by necessity a focal point. Since an important part of Waldorf education is the teacher's individual relationship to the subject matter, it must be emphasized that the examples given here, while consciously founded on principles of Waldorf education, also reflect my own personal approach. [Extracted from the article]