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Release Date:	01 June, 1995
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ISBN:	1888947004

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Best book on education and learning I have read.
As a former teacher frustrated with the mediocrity andlimitations of traditional public schools, I find this book to beexciting and refreshing, offering hope that at least someone has theright idea. True learning is learner-driven, experiential, andfreeing.

Socrates knew well that all knowledge pre-exists in us, andthat his job as a "teacher" was not to spew his ownknowledge, but to facilitate the learner to get in touch with the factthat they already know what they need to know, they just have to knowthat they know. Socrates merely reminded them of that. He was the"maieutic", the Socratic midwife, helping others toexperience the joy of learning. When I shifted my teaching style fromthe "Keeper of All Knowledge", to the "Midwife",the effects were monumental.

Now here we have an entire school,successful since its beginnings in the 60's, operating solely on theseprinciples. Follow up books LEGACY OF TRUST: LIFE AFTER THE SUDBURYSCHOOL EXPERIENCE, KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD, and SUDBURY VALLEY SCHOOLEXPERIENCE, examine the long term effects and personal reflections offormer students.

As a parent, I spend significant time with bykids(AFTER their homework is done!)helping them pursue what intereststhem, trying to keep that flame of the adventure that is learningalive, following the principles I learned in thisbook...

A great statement of self-education and mutual respect.
This book explains quite a bit about the Sudbury Valley School, it is not about people who want to work at a super market checkout nor is it about people who do not know how to read. This is about a school that essentially lets you unschool. As and unschooler I found it to be interesting and inspiring. This is a book about a school where you essentially can become anything you want to become. Traditional schools are about molding people, this is a school about learning and freedom. While searching for alternative education I actually visited a school that models itself on SVS, however it was a bit of a drive to get there and it was just getting off the ground so I chose to unschool instead.

"There can be no freedom without learning and learning without freedom is always in vain"-JFK

I laughed when I read this book
My main objection to this book is that it is full of lies. The sudbury philosophy sounds great, but having enrolled in one, I have discovered that the dream of children having freedom in the educational system remains far from becoming a reality.