Daniel Greenberg

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. ”

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy. ”

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children. ”

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. ”

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. ”

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. ”

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them. ”

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. ”

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in. ”

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world. ”