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Writing By
Mimsy Sadofsky
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We have a lot to muse about as we struggle to make ourselves comfortable in a world that seems to be mainly for people whose […]
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From Interviews by Hanna Greenberg edited by Mimsy Sadofsky and Daniel Greenberg (207) “Mobility was a big part of what was different about the school […]
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As they decide whether or not to send their children here, or as they fret about their children while they are enrolled here, there are […]
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born, and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain Mimsy: Happiness is […]
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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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I realized that one of the kids in school who had been here for many years was about to turn eleven. (How dare she get […]
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Mimsy: This is a recording of an interview with Alli Harvey, who graduated in 2004, and we reproduced the actual recording here. She lives in Alaska, and […]
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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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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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I am writing this on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Neue Schule Hamburg, to offer congratulations and a tiny bit of retrospection. I […]
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It’s amazing that anybody considers that what’s called “a school” in the traditional meaning of the term has anything to do with preparing children for […]
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This spring, there’s been quite a lot of talk, once again, about a book called Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding. Published in […]
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Dan: Recently, a group of alumni on their own initiative decided to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sudbury Valley School, and invited all alumni from everywhere […]
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Dan: One thing I can’t understand is how people have confidence in the material that’s being taught in classrooms, whether it’s elementary school, middle school, […]
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I want to talk about something called “the zone of proximal development”, an idea developed by Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky early in the 20th century. […]
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