Are any of them involved in starting schools like Sudbury Valley?
Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn’t want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school. Do you speak to education students and teachers in training on college campuses? Yes, quite often I’m invited to do so. We’ve been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy. What do they want to know from you? What do you tell them? The saddest question of all is, What advice do you have for us who are in the trenches, fighting to teach every day? My response is: Get out of the trench! Their jobs are fast becoming obsolete. They don’t want to hear that, of course. Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has from industrial age to information age there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resi
