But here again, it isn't so. In the best Carl Rogers tradition, nothing, nothing at all is offered to the child, except a deep and profound regard. And it is the child who will seize this monumental offering and use it to become a person and to be free. And here again it can be confusing. The social and cultural production of free children may look like education, but only because it has been so long since our older eyes and hearts have seen freedom.
Freedom is what Sudbury Valley is about.
The work is Harriet Tubman work. All of us, staff and parents, are working the southern banks of the Ohio. If any of our students or our children make it to the northern shore, let them rest in the mud, let them be free. And let the joy in our own hearts be sufficient. And of course, I could be wrong.