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>> Scott David Gray <sg...@unseelie.org> Sep 15 12:07PM -0400 ^ <#digest_top>
>> Just about any/every endeavor that does not interfere with others'
>> freedom is harmonious with a free democratic community.
>> In a school in particular, though, as Derek and others have alluded,
>> one has to be very very careful that the community has a culture in
>> which influential members who are interested in doing things with
>> their freedom which are unusual in the larger community, do not end up
>> coercing, cajoling, seducing or restricting the freedom of others in
>> the community. It is very easy for a person to fall too easily into
>> the trap of protecting others' freedom's to do those things that s/he
>> her/himself happens to like -- and put somewhat less effort and
>> intensity into protecting the ability of others to do things (e.g.
>> running a separate garden with the full gamut of pesticides, or living
>> an indoor lifestyle) that are less attractive to him/her.
>> Every person who works in a Sudbury school has to have a clear sense
>> of this tension.