Even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, meeting shortly before Jobs’s death in 2011, “agreed that, so far, computers had made surprisingly little impact on schools.”22 Maybe all of that is why the private Waldorf schools in and around Silicone Valley are brimming with the children of executives and engineers from tech firms like Apple, Yahoo, and Google. The Waldorf philosophy is simple: no tech gadgets in the primary school. Their curriculum is about hands-on creativity and learning; the tech stuff can wait until high school or later. More incredible, the tech parents sign on and so do their kids.23
