RE: DSM: David Rovner's and Bruce Smith's recent posts on the Diploma

From: Liz Reid&Errol Strelnikoff (lizanderrol@home.com)
Date: Sun Dec 23 2001 - 12:11:01 EST


> That basic view is that the child is an improver. It is a
> view that the child
> is a developer, a learner, a grower.

I was wondering what would happen if a child came to Sudbury that did
none of these things; neither learned, grew or developed the whole time
they were there?

> (By the way, it is not only the child that is free; when we
> (the children,
> the parents, the staff, the founders and the assembly) fail
> to evaluate
> progress, well then, that's our freedom.)

But what is the next phase? When the children of Sudbury have their
children and these children live in *freedom* from birth, does this mean
the second paradigm happens the moment the baby leaves the birht canal
or is it still only possible at the Sudbury door?

> And this second paradigm happens the first moment the four
> year old arrives
> at the "school" house door. It happens when, as Sudbury has
> done for 33
> years, they are offered real and true freedom. It happens
> exactly in that
> first moment, when we fail to anticipate.

Liz

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