RE: [Discuss-sudbury-model] Questions about Their Future

Hi Michael

If a child in SVS does not learn French, it's simply because he is not
interested in it. I believe that when this child grows up, he won't care
whether he can speak French. Probably he won't even think being able to speak
French with no accent is a big deal. Children in SVS are always content with
who they are. If they grow up and find it interesting, they will learn it,
efficiently and happily.
I think if you had been in a SVS-model school, what would have been different
for you is not you don't know French, but you think it's not a problem you
don't know French.

Huang

>
>But, again, my point is that putting me in an SVS-model school would also
>have been gambling with my life. There's a risk to being put in a
>traditional school, that I will have my curiosity crushed out of me and
>become a mindless automaton, but there's a benefit, that I wll become
>fluent in French. There's a benefit to being put in an SVS-model school,
>that I will not become an automaton, but there's a risk, that I will
>regret not having learned French. Now, I don't feel that I'm an automaton,
>and I did learn French, so I think their gamble paid off.

>-Michael
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