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ROOM 13 Room 13 is a pupil-run studio in a primary school in Scotland. It has exhibited at Tate Modern, but it is remarkable for much more than its art. --- Matthew Appleton, a former Summerhill houseparent, writes about his impressions of the school. --- BREAKING AN OATH This account is by a young Austrian who was educated entirely by her parents, in Austria and Turkey. --- Have you ever wondered what it is really like at Eton? Some of the privileges are described here. --- Ricardo Semmler runs a business in Brazil where everyone decides what work to do, when to do it and how much they will get paid. He has written a book about it called The Seven-day Week-end . Now they have started a school. ---- BOOK REVIEWS Let our Children Learn A fascinating account of what happened when three retired teachers with supposedly "old-fashioned" ideas worked together for two days in a primary school.
Joanna, as an adult, spent three months in a primary school in the role of a child. What she found out was both predictable and astonishing.
Sammy Kunina has a passionately libertarian approach to parenting.
The Guardian newspaper invited children to tell them about the school they would like, and this book tells of their responses. ARTICLES ARCHIVE
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