Curriculum
Sudbury schools have no timetable, on the grounds that forcing children to learn a fixed curriculum interferes with their natural desire to learn what interests them. Most other democratic schools offer voluntary courses, and many, such as Summerhill in the UK and the Kapriole in Freiburg, Germany, help interested students to prepare for national examinations so they gain qualifications for further study or future employment.
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“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)