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"Public School is like being in a long corridor with no doors either side - you need to get to the end and there is only one way. Our school is like being in a giant room surrounded by doors which are all open"

Student at Glacier Lake School, Montana

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Maria writes, "Freedom and responsibility are considered two sides of the same coin at democratic schools, where students direct their own learning.

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"All I am saying…can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted"

John Holt (via glacierlakeschool)

"All I am saying...can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted"

John Holt

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Twelve students from all over the valley are trying a different approach to education at Glacier Lake School where children decide what they want to learn...

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Leaf Art @ glacierlakeschool

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Teenagers may not be irritable because of supposed attitude problems, but because early school hours affect their biological clocks, scientists claim.

We let teens sign in at a time that suits them

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Freedom and Responsibility, Naturally

Self Directed Learning. Don't they just sit around doing nothing? Article on our blog.

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One kid teaching another how to tie shoe laces at Glacier Lake School.

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by Laura Grace Weldon School-like instruction has been around less than a fraction of one percent of the time we humans have been on earth. Yet hum

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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato (via moralanarchism)

Freedom and Responsibility, NaturallyThe first two weeks at Glacier Lake School.

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Early morning Monopoly

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staff

Today’s the day. The day you help save the internet from being ruined.

Ready?

Yes, you are, and we’re ready to help you.

(Long story short: The FCC is about to make a critical decision as to whether or not internet service providers have to treat all traffic equally. If they choose wrong, then the internet where anyone can start a website for any reason at all, the internet that’s been so momentous, funny, weird, and surprising—that internet could cease to exist. Here’s your chance to preserve a beautiful thing.)

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Kids teaching kids

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From grade schools to senior villages, we now spend much of our lives on separate generational islands. Can we reverse the trend?

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