The Globe and Mail

Education is so much more than the dissemination and absorption of facts. It's interactive and organic; teachers, parents and even architecture should all play a part in the journey. Pie-in-the-sky, you say? On Bathurst Street just north of Highway 7, you might catch a glimpse of a place where this is true. Peering over the treetops like a giant periscope (or perhaps the tip of the iceberg of knowledge) is the distinctive "sky dome" of Canada's oldest Waldorf school. The school was built in various stages starting in 1973. It's part of a movement started after the First World War by Austrian Rudolph Steiner, with the aim of educating the whole child -- balancing academic, artistic and practical elements.