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Curriculum, and The Goals of Education -Stop Pushing Children -Freedom Nurtures Culture and Learning -Coercion is Obsolete in Schools -"The Basics" Re-examined -Why Force Reading?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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