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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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Do Over In-Situ
Would you actually turn back the hands of time and be a kid again if you had the ‘sus’ power to shape shift or time…
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Do People Learn From Courses?
The role of courses in learning has been on my mind a lot recently, largely due to conversations with various present and former School Meeting…
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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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Entertainment, Boredom and Responsibility
The most fundamental educational lesson we hope our students will learn is that they are responsible for their own education, and in fact for their…
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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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Food at SVS
Food serves as a major aspect of life at SVS. Of course, everyone in the world loves food; however, here it takes on a life…
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Frogs and calculators
This post was written by our Office Manager, Jean Cote. Recently, I had the opportunity (privilege) to introduce a calculator in all its glory to…
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Fun at SVS is More Than Meets the Eye
It’s already the first week of July and it is only now that I finally am rested enough to have a modicum of perspective about…
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Gavin’s Education
An SVS education is just too big for paper, too big for grades, and certainly too big for a poster board of facts and opinions.
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Happiness – What Does It Have to Do With Sudbury Valley? A Conversation
“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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How It Feels To Send Your Kid To a “Free” School
(edited from a presentation to the Cascade Valley School Assembly) Over the years, we found that the parents who choose to send their children to…
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How Students at Sudbury Valley School Spend Their Days: Freedom, Flow and Happiness
Many parents in Hong Kong (and in other places) want their children to study at and graduate from a prestigious university. While for some this…
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Human Curiosity
Aristotle starts his book, Metaphysics, with the remarkable statement that ‘human beings are born naturally curious’. Nothing can stop it . . . Its free exercise benefits both the individual and society as never before.
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Inside the Enchanted Forest
I was speaking with a prospective family at an Open House a few months ago and telling them about the democratic process at Sudbury Valley…
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Learning to be a Parent of a Sudbury Valley Student
It isn’t always easy to take the road less traveled. When my daughter first started attending Sudbury Valley School, she was five-years-old. Parents, friends and…
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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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