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What is a Free Skool/School?
- The classes are free.
- The education is guided by the students, the teachers, the parents and the community.
- Anyone can be a student and anyone can be a teacher.
- People learn and teach what they want.
- It works!
Existing Free Skools/Schools
- "The Freedom School was created as a place where students can come together and develop critical thinking skills while they challenge the system and learn to survive in the 'real' world."
- "Founded in 1969 by Mary Leue, the Albany Free School is the oldest inner-city independent alternative school in the United States."
- "The Brooklyn Free School is dedicated to the belief that all students must be free to develop naturally as human beings in a non-coercive educational environment and empowered to make decisions affecting their everyday lives and that of their community."
- "Free Skool Santa Cruz is a decentralized network that shares skills, information, and knowledge without the limitations of hierarchy and the sterile institutional environment of formal schooling."
Wikiversity: School of Mental Freedom and Wikiversity: School of Practical Human Life
- "We set out the materials needed to learn, and set up a framework for collaborative learning and teaching. It is the task of the self selected participants to work towards actual mastery of desired skills sufficient and necessary to pursue personal goals. Anyone, including you, can edit any course module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikiversity module."
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