EDT 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Sudbury Valley School
14 Apr 2016
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There is a possibility that if we don"t force children to go to school and we change the system of education, we can have better education. Students education themselves through their own play and exploration, without adult direction continue on and become effective adults. School provides a setting that promotes exploration, they have a first hand account of democracy. This setting is a lot cheaper to maintain and run. Schools are products of history not logical. In the beginning people educated themselves through play and exploration. Before the advent of agriculture we lived as hunters and gathers. The strong drives for children to play and explore come about from this part in our evolution because that is how our ancestors learned things about the world and how it worked, by exploration. Children in this time had unlimited freedom. Skill and knowledge intensive way of life. With the rise of agriculture, children were needed as laborers.
