All over the Western world education is being reduced to forcing as many children as possible to take as many exams as possible ...
Democratic Education is a growing movement, it is now being offered by over 200 places in more than 30 countries. I have given talks on the subject in France, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Poland and Spain as well as Germany, Austria and the UK.
All over the world there are conventional schools that ignore children's curiosity, suppress their energy and overrule their generous moral impulses.
And all over the world, as I have at last discovered, there are people who have seen the damage that this does, and have set up schools that are different. I have written about eighteen of these schools in Real Education: Varieties of Freedom, and another four, at greater length, in Lifelines.
They are schools which decline to train children to become cogs, and indeed help children who have been so trained to lose their "coggishness."
