In Leo Tolstoy's "Education and Instruction", written in 1860, he predicts that democratic education will not become widely accepted for another one hundred years.
Indeed, the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts first opened in 1968, and many democratic schools continued to be opened soon after (the first democratic school, Summerhill School, in Suffolk, England, opened in 1921).
Although democratic schools have been opened across the world, it is clear that the teaching method of choice is one that is archaic and irrelevant for the modern world. Lectures, rote memorization, standardized tests, students passing through sterile white halls to the sounds of a bell…
How much longer can we wait for change?
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