TRIBENI WALDORF SCHOOL, DHAKA

The Waldorf Initiative Bangladesh is a group of interested teachers, parents and young people, committed to bringing Waldorf education to Bangladesh. This has already begun with the opening of the Tribeni Kindergarten in Gandaria, Dhaka. In the long term the Initiative plans on expanding the school to include classes up to class 8.

The curriculum will offer children a modern education following an international curriculum, while at the same time rooting them firmly in their own culture. It will address the varied religious backgrounds: Islamic, Hinduistic, Buddhist and Christian; Bangladesh’s rich cultural heritage in literature, dance and musical streams (folk music and Tagore, classical Islamic music and Indian classical dance and music), its specific geographical features (Delta of the rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra) and political history (Colonialism, war of independence). Therefore the medium of instruction will be Bengali, but with a strong emphasis on the English language, instead of introducing a third foreign language as is usually done in Waldorf schools.

“The challenge in Education is no longer to ask what a person needs to know or be able to do in order to fit into the existing social order, rather we must pose the question, what lives within each human being and how can this evolve in such a way, so that the new qualities of each emergent new generation can flow into and change the existing social conditions. The new generation should not just be made into what the present society wants them to be.”
        Dr. Rudolf Steiner
        German Philosopher and Educationist