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How Children Learn
Children are born learners. When given time, space, and freedom, they explore the world with intensity, curiosity, and purpose. This section focuses on what learning looks like in the absence of coercion — how skills develop through play, interest, experimentation, and real engagement with others. These essays challenge familiar assumptions about teaching and reveal learning as a natural, lifelong process.
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Acquiring Wisdom at Sudbury Valley School
Acquiring wisdom is the highest goal of education. To be wise is to have the ability to lead a good, useful, and productive life, both…
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And They Say Students Don’t Learn Division at SVS…
I love chocolate and eat a piece after lunch and dinner. Pretty much religiously. In the beginning of the year, I used to pack a…
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Are 1000 Pictures Worth One Word?
Reprinted from The Sudbury Valley School NEWSLETTER; vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 3-6 I On at least four occasions during the past eight years, people…
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Are They Getting Their Work Done?
It’s another snow day. I’m shoveling our sidewalk, while my husband is working on a talk about visual presentations of work, and I’m thinking about…
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Being Average is Not Normal
Cori, my oldest daughter and Kali, one of her close friends at SVS, are having a good-humored debate about which one of them reads…
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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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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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Children’s Choices
The uniqueness of Sudbury schools is the value we place on choice rather than control. That is the new paradigm! Most adults associated with the…
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Climbing Your Everest, A Conversation
Hanna: People who hear about the school often say: so everybody will just work on what’s easy for them. And my answer to them is:…
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Conversation: the Staple Ingredient
Think of the school place as a modern Aristotelian academy, where people develop their minds through talking.
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Curiosity, Self-Respect and Learning
This is an edited transcript of a talk given at Koonan University, near Kobe, Japan, to the psychology class of Professor Hage Daishin on April…
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Dancing in the Rain
October 2, 2019 was a very rainy day, just the kind of day to stay indoors and be cozy. Not so at SVS. At…
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Do Children Need Guidance?
This article was adapted from a talk presented at Sudbury Valley School to the school community and others on April 6, 2011. Do Children Need…
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Do Computers Really Isolate the Modern Child?
One of the prevalent myths about the evil wrought upon today’s young generation by “screen time” is that computers discourage their users from social interactions….
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