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Resources
Format
Essay w/Audio
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“Do What You Wish”: The Sudbury Valley School and the Neverending Story of Learning
“Do what you wish.” Readers, at least those of my generation, might remember this motto from Michael Ende’s book The Neverending Story1. The student Bastian,…
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“It’s a Great School, But Not for MY Kid!” “Really?”
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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“Just Walk Away”, A Conversation
Mimsy: Yesterday I was talking to a professor of philosophy and his daughter, who’s about 13 or 14, and she said, “The stuff that you…
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“What Grade Are You In?” The Folly of Separating Children by Age
School’s a place for kids to learn. Everybody agrees to that. That’s why they exist. Well, but kids learn all the time; it’s part of…
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“What’s So Important About Classroom Material?”, A Conversation
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 Be the Age I Am Right Now!”
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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“Kids Don’t Learn Anything at SVS”
The over-riding fear that parents express when they approach this model of education is that kids aren’t learning anything. Of course, when confronted, they will…
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A Student’s Experience in the Real World
There is a myth out there, a false idea called the “real world”. “It’s not like that in the real world.” “When you get out…
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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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Alli Harvey, interviewed by Mimsy Sadofsky
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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Aren’t Children “People”?
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” – the three cornerstones of this country, and the reason it was founded in the first place. These…
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Being Who You Are
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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Can Children “Learn” Anything at Sudbury Valley School?
Of course they can . . . They do it as infants . . . as adults . . . and throughout the ages in between. At Sudbury Valley children learn how to live as free citizens in a democratic society.
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Can You Trust Children To Design Their Own Education?
What is the justification for trying to guide children and tell them what they need to be successful adults? Does anyone have a right to…
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Celebrating Fairhaven at 20
Twenty years ago a Sudbury type school was established in the state of Maryland. Its group of founders, with help, bought twelve acres in a…
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Children Are Like Locs
Children Are Like Locs by Anika Prather The Living Water School, Alexandria, VA This has been the year for me personally, as a mom and as…
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