Dear Gerald
> I've been involved with the free school movement for many
> years.
I too believe in freeing school - it's been imprisoned for far
too long! (Sorry, I couldn't resist it) 8-)
> I find your comments and insight refreshing and reassuring.
I wonder if you have ever come across the writings of William
Godwin? He once wrote:
"The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it
pursues the gossamer, and flies from object to object, lawless
and unconfined: and it is equally necessary to the development
of his frame, that his thoughts and his body should be free from
fetters."
That was written in the late eighteenth century. For me it
predates Carl Rogers thoughts on student centered learning, in
his book 'Freedom to Learn', by two hundred years.
Godwin, incidentally, was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and
the father of Mary Shelley.
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Best wishes
Paul
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