Hi Jean-pol,  

 ::" 'We go to school to learn.' That's the intellectual goal. It comes before all the others. So much so, that 'getting an education' has come to mean 'learning'  a bit narrow, to be sure, but it gets the priorities clear.  

 ::Then why don't people learn more in schools today? Why all the complaints? Why the seemingly limitless expenditures just to tread water, let alone to progress?  

 ::The answer is embarrassingly simple. Schools today are institutions in which 'learning' is taken to mean 'being taught.' You want people to learn? Teach them! You want them to learn more? Teach them more! And more! Work them harder. Drill them longer.  

 :: But learning is a process you do, not a process that is done to you! That is true of everyone. It's basic."  

 :::[a fragment of, "Back to Basics"]  

  
 In Sudbury Schools the focus lies on getting an education. Learning is one of the goals of education: the intellectual goal.  

 There are many ways of learning, but as said before, "learning is a process you do, not a process that is done to you! That is true of everyone. It's basic.''"     

 So you can learn from books, or from a computer program, or from experience, or from somebody that guides you and explains you, or from being an apprentice, or from learning by teaching, or by watching someone else, or on your own,...for example.  

 In Sudbury Schools the focus lies on getting an education, not on mixing different ages. Age mixing in Sudbury Schools is just one of the important components of the school's environment that supports and enhances learning.  

 I invite you "to see" what is The Sudbury Valley School.    

 By the way, the vast majority of us wants other people to get acquainted with what we do and/or with what we believe in, and many of us wish to be accepted for what we do and/or for what we believe in. If that is advertising  so be it.  

 :Cheers,