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Resources
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Essay
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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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21st Century Children and the Cyberworld
This article is based on a talk delivered at Sudbury Valley School on January 15, 2013. When I looked at the announcement for this talk,…
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21st Century Schools
This is an edited transcript of a talk delivered at the April 2000 International Conference on Learning in the 21st Century, sponsored by Arthur Andersen….
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A “Simple” Walk in the Woods
Sometimes it is a wonder to me that I keep on working at the school. I am saying this not because I am bored with…
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A Matter of Priorities
A young girl of nine or ten asked me to teach her math. I gave her some problems which she enjoyed doing. Next day she…
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A Music Corp Reinstated: The Nascent Voyage
On May 9th at noon the SVS Music Corp gave its first concert since it was disbanded three years ago. I was part and parcel…
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A New Year Message
An Introduction, by Hanna Greenberg “In Israel, where I come from, there are two “Sudbury” schools, and both are thriving. One is in the heart of…
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A Paradigm Shift for Parents of a Child in a Sudbury School
We grow up making assumptions, which are derived from our culture. We build on these assumptions to form our view on how the world works. Many are self-correcting because of new information. But some of these assumptions are so obviously true, so much a part of our culture, of what we are, that it takes a great effort on our part to question them carefully.
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A Peripatetic School for the 21st Century
There is a book on my desk: “Wanderlust” . . . . This book is about peripatetics! While reading it, I thought about the two…
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A Place to Grow
The school was first conceived half a century ago, in the Fall of 1965. In so many ways, it was a different world back then. Talking to young people about life in those days is like relating stories about some distant far-gone period in the history of mankind. No laptops? No smartphones? No worldwide web?
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A School for Today
Every one of us here this evening has something in common. We have all come here because we are thinking about a subject which is…
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A Scientist at Heart
“I attend the Sudbury Valley School. . . It is based on the idea that humans are innately curious, and that, when left in charge…
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A Spa for the Soul
One of our particularly lovely and fascinating bankers was visiting recently. It was not her first time, but being here makes most people, if they…
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A Sudbury Valley Education: The View from Inside
In the long view of things, the concept of the school isn’t that odd. In the history of human culture, public education as we know…
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A Sudbury Valley School Glossary
When talking about the school, we all find others confused about what we believe, and about what we do. As with most confusion, much of…
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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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