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Re:No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching ups... by stared on Monday July 04, 2016 @02:11PM (#12032137)
An obligatory reference:

A. S. Neill "Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" (1960), especially chapter 1 (about the Summerhill school itself). The schools started in 1920s, and sadly, we made no progress in that direction in the last century.

Link: https://trisquel.info/files/summerhill-english_1.pdf

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Re:No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching ups... by i_love_jc on Monday July 04, 2016 @08:41PM (#12033774)
You're very right that our school system as a whole hasn't made any progress in that direction, but I do find it a somewhat hopeful sign that there are now quite a number of democratic schools based on Summerhill and the similar Sudbury model. 40 or so Sudbury schools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sudbury_schools), probably a hundred or more under the loose umbrella of "democratic" and associated with AERO.
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