A Place to Grow: Lessons from Sudbury Valley
Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the Sudbury Valley School, documents thirty years of evidence that children thrive when given freedom and responsibility.
Daniel Greenberg·1995
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Daniel Greenberg is a co-founder of the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts, which he helped establish in 1968 as a radically democratic alternative to conventional schooling. He has a PhD in physics from Columbia University and has written extensively about the Sudbury model, democratic education, and the philosophy of freedom in education. His many books, published by the Sudbury Valley School Press, document the theory and practice of democratic schools and their outcomes for graduates.
Key Ideas
- →Children of all ages can govern themselves and their community through democratic process
- →Learning happens naturally when children are free and trusted
- →Age mixing is essential for healthy child development — same-age grouping is unnatural
- →Graduates of democratic schools consistently report high life satisfaction and professional success