What do students say about life at Sudbury Valley? This book is a remarkable series of vivid personal recollections of school, in the words of former students, drawn from comprehensive, reflective interviews, telling what they did, and how they felt about their Sudbury Valley School experience.
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Our best-selling description of the school is bursting with the excitement of life at Sudbury Valley. Free at Last is also chock-full of stories that illustrate the many unique features of this highly original model.
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Our best-selling description of the school is bursting with the excitement of life at Sudbury Valley. Free at Last is also chock-full of stories that illustrate the many unique features of this highly original model.
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No one knows better than our students and our alumni what makes life at Sudbury Valley so intense, and so in tune with the natural bent each person has to optimize their lives. Included are a book of reminiscences of life at school, a study of alumni, essays of an alumnus, and public presentations by alumni.
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“Students will possess the set of powerful character traits that the Sudbury system imbues in those who have spent sufficient time in the program. Above all, they will live an examined life that is fulfilling, meaningful and fun.”
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The people who play sports at SVS learn far more profound lessons about life than those that can be taught by regimented, performance-oriented sports. They learn excellence, the type of excellence that comes from setting a standard for yourself to live up to and then trying your best to live up to it.
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This introductory video is an impressionistic display of many facets of the School’s daily life, followed by comments by former students, as presented in a public event held at the School.
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In the Spring of 2000, Mimsy Sadofsky was interviewed by Dr. Daria Brezinsky on her live radio show, “Children Come First”. The wide-ranging and searching questions asked on the show mirrored those that are so often asked during enrollment interviews and other conversations about the school.
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In the Spring of 2000, Mimsy Sadofsky was interviewed by Dr. Daria Brezinsky on her live radio show, “Children Come First”. The wide-ranging and searching questions asked on the show mirrored those that are so often asked during enrollment interviews and other conversations about the school.
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This is a rich compendium of unique individual narratives – the struggles, the victories, and the achievements. “Most people don’t see the connection between freedom and getting an education. But I’ve seen what freedom can do to a person; it makes you figure things out for yourself.”
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