October 13th, 2011 by MJones
If you ask me, there are too many businesses (and particularly corporations) that simply take from communities and give absolutely nothing back in return. This is not a healthy model for a strong and unified society. Many times before we’ve seen tattooists who have offered up charitable donations to various causes. This is always great to see and typically, these charitable donations go to disadvantaged children, those suffering from illness or worse. As undeniably important as those issues are, it’s also nice to see someone contributing money to schooling for children of all ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
On October 17th, Irish tattooist Shane Sunday is going to be donating all his profits for the day from his tattoo studio Alternative Ink in the Northern Irish town of Holywood to the Holywood Steiner School. I had never heard of the Holywood Steiner School prior to reading this article, but after a little bit of investigation, the school sounds like a pretty cool place for kids. Part of the Steiner-Waldorf schools that exist around Europe, the Holywood Steiner school is a place for children to be educated in what is probably best described as an unconventional school system. Actually, this blurb directly from the Steiner-Waldorf site probably best explains it:
‘Steiner schools are always co-educational, fully comprehensive and take pupils from 3 to ideally eighteen. They welcome children of all abilities from all faiths and backgrounds.
The priority of the Steiner ethos is to provide an unhurried and creative learning environment where children can find the joy in learning and experience the richness of childhood rather than early specialisation or academic hot-housing. The curriculum itself is a flexible set of pedagogical guidelines, founded on Steiner’s principles that take account of the whole child. It gives equal attention to the physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and spiritual needs of each pupil and is designed to work in harmony with the different phases of the child’s development. The core subjects of the curriculum are taught in thematic blocks and all lessons include a balance of artistic, practical and intellectual content. Whole class, mixed ability teaching is the norm.’
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