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Education in America

A View From Sudbury Valley

by Daniel Greenberg

Table of Contents:
-Introduction: Children Should be Free Citizens

Part 1: Learning, Curriculum, and The Goals of Education
-Stop Pushing Children
-Freedom Nurtures Culture and Learning
-Coercion is Obsolete in Schools
-"The Basics" Re-examined
-Why Force Reading?
-Why Force ARithmetic?
-On the Pointlessness of Teaching Everyone Math
-Is Cursive Writing Really Necessary
-Most HIstory Curricula Do More Harm than Good
-School Science Courses Don't Teach Science At All
-In Schools, Useful Subjects are Rarely Offered
-In Schools, Relevant Subjects are Rarely Offered
-Another Look at "The Basics"
-"Taking Courses" vs. "Learning"
-Real Learning Starts with the Curiosity of the Student
-"Ethics" is a Course Taught by Life Experience
-The Goals of Education in a Free Society
-We Need Less Homogenization, and Much More Variation, in Our Schools?
-What Do We Want to Achieve in Our Schools?
-Tests: What They Are, How They Work
-Standard Tests Destroy the Educational System

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