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Underlying Ideas
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Sudbury Schools: Unschooling With Babysitting?
We often hear people talk about Sudbury schools as “unschooling schools”. Besides the fact that the actual phrase, to me, does not even make sense,…
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To Thyself Be True
We were talking about birthdays, Audrey, Ben, Christine and I. All three children had just turned six and their birthday parties were recalled with much…
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Doing Nothing
There is a stigma against people who are perceived to be “doing nothing”. The greatest fear that most adults have, vis-a-vis children enrolled in Sudbury Valley,…
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Men at work
Mimsy took the following photograph at school recently: She gave the photo the title “Men at Work”. At first sight, the title seems whimsical, though the…
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Where Does Happiness Come From?
I confess that I wasn’t thinking about happiness in 1968, when my husband and I decided to send our children to the almost-open Sudbury Valley…
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Every One, The Best
How can every person be above average? It sounds impossible, but it is a given in the community at Sudbury Valley. Living life with a…
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The Heart of the School, Two Takes
If you happen to be sitting in the large front room called “the sewing room,” you might notice that every day at 11:00 a.m., eight people walk into the adjacent book-lined “seminar room.” What you are seeing is the gathering of the school’s Judicial Committee (JC).
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The evil of the “teaching moment”
This is a confession: It took me many, many years to learn how not to pounce and use what are called “teaching moments” at home…
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All Day, Every Day
Our son recently spent two weeks visiting his grandmother in Paris by himself. It was a wonderful adventure that allowed him to explore his independence…
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“Don’t You See I Don’t Have Time for This?”
[reprinted from The School Bull, Informal News about The Clearwater School] Feel in it Even swim in it And music noits Fill my bain This…
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How do SVS students get into college?
It started with the 12-year-old girl down the street who told my daughter she would never get into college. I am sure many of our…
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Happiness: The Forgotten “Unalienable Right”?
There is not a lot of talk these days about happiness. It’s considered more of an accidental condition than a fundamentally required, or expected, one….
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Portrait of a Culture
What do SVS students have in common? What are the distinguishing features of this vibrant collection of people whose energy strikes you the moment you…
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A Tour De Force
In the car on the way home from the Maynard Fine Arts Theater on Saturday, January 26, Danny and I were elated. We had just…
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Liberty and the Creative Spirit
We live in a country which is governed on the principle of individual liberty, where people have been able to grow up in a way…
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Long Overdue
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” – the three cornerstones of this country, and the reason it was founded in the first place. These were the…
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