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Anthroposophy insists children learn through dancing

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Basic math is way too hard, try interpretive swaying instead. Anthroposophy heavily insists that children learn profound universal truths best not by reading, but through very specific, mystical bodily movements.

Anthroposophy insists children learn through dancing
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