—> No Early Focus on Academics:
Waldorf schools prioritize protecting children from external pressures, including curriculum outcomes, standardized tests, and adult news.
—>Until around age 7, basic literacy and numeracy skills take a backseat, with learning occurring through storytelling, drawing, and oral communication.
That is how Japanese schools work.
That’s a late start for a writing system that uses over a thousand Chinese characters plus 100 additional phonetic syllabic characters in the kana system.