What Children Learn

Do they actually all want to learn? They badly want to learn. But something new, something exciting. Something that they don't know already. And something that they can make use of ...

Unhappy at School

Everyone wants to be happy, just as everyone wants to eat, but for many children school and happiness are simply incompatible ...

Respect Children

Civilised society depends on mutual respect. A refusal to respect children discourages them from becoming civilised ...

Alternative Education

Conventional education tries to turn you into something that you are not, and alternative education helps you to develop what you are ...

School and Society

Traditional schools, instead of modelling an ideal society, model a society that is worse than most, a divided society with a defined, dominated underclass from which it is impossible to escape ...

Progressive Education

This entails equal status for children and adults, who must share responsibility for the running of their schools, and freedom for children to decide how they will spend their time...