Prospective families tend to feel a sense of calm and quiet study when touring our classrooms for the first time. This is directly related to Waldorf education's purposeful use of color and visual elements in the learning environment.  

"Heavily decorated classrooms can bombard students with too much visual information, interfering with their memory and ability to focus... children’s cognitive capacities are still under development, including executive functions responsible for the filtering of irrelevant information for a given task." http://ow.ly/4OYM30my0JO