When I look back at the result of my past teaching, the real results seem the same - either damage was done, or nothing significant occurred. Carl Rogers, April 1952. Eighteen years before Sudbury Valley opens, Carl Rogers has already developed client-centered therapy and simply crushes the notion of teaching. He also notes that Kierkegaard arrived at the same place a hundred years earlier. And thirty years of Sudbury Valley certainly agrees.
Teaching is impossible and if tried, damaging.
So, Sudbury Valley avoids teaching children and thus avoids futile or damaging results. And when we all agree to stop teaching and preaching about all the wonderful goodness of Sudbury Valley we will avoid much futility and damage also. Teaching and preaching is reaching for results. It is invasive. The results of Sudbury Valley are owned by the children.