Monday Guest Blogger: Peter Foti
Peter Foti discusses Robert’s Rules, a way of organising democratic meetings.
Resistance is Futile
Have you ever been in the situation where someone has tried to tell you that your project will never get off the ground because science, technology, research and policy are all against it? Have you ever been told what is inevitable? You may be a witness to the Borg Complex, a peculiarly modern pathology.
Saturday Summerhill Take Away: What Kind of Democracy is This?
What kind of democracy do you get in a democratic school like Summerhill? It is not political democracy- representative democracy as we know it at regional and national level. It is something else entirely, but it is not immediately clear what it is.
Are You Secretly Religious?
Are you secretly religious? Think about what it might mean not to have Free Will. In this post I suggest that in the world of tomorrow the only schools that will be left when all the moralistic claptrap is thrown out will be democratic schools.
Democratic Meetings in the World
Democratic meetings are an essential part of of democratic societies… But it seems like people do not know how to run them, behave in them and make decisions in them. This should change.
Sex Education: a Dysfunctional Story
Sex education at Queens College was perhaps more useless than the norm, but it gave me a good nose for the smell of moral hogwash. There is a lot of that swilling around in sex education generally.
Guest Post Monday: Robert Alcock
Guest post by Robert Alcock of Abrazo House that describes the difficulties of setting up a Democratic School. The first of a series.
Saturday Summerhill Take Away: Sex and the Child
Sex gets people going and there is nothing like the thought of our little darlings losing their innocence to have the steam coming out of journalists’ ears. Calm down, say I, and have a think about what growing up might mean.
Girls Needed, or Where is the Lady of Flies?
The Lord of the Flies desscribes how little boys turn into little savages without the guiding hand of adult authority. It is the opposite of Neill. What about girls?
Action: Moving Out of the Wilderness
Starting out can can be difficult. To avoid going around in circles, here are some suggestions for practical steps you can take to get you out of the wilderness. Once you start moving you will find the territory changes and you will able to see your direction more clearly.
