My school as a kid was Montessori, not Sudbury, but a lot of the ideas are the same. Yes, I think you're old school for thinking that. Kids learned fine for ten

My school as a kid was Montessori, not Sudbury, but a lot of the ideas are the same. Yes, I think you're old school for thinking that. Kids learned fine for tens of thousands of years by following adults around, watching what they did, and doing whatever they found interesting at the moment. The industrial-era "place the children in a big concrete box until they are ready to go to either a factory or jail" model is a dinosaur, and I really hope some kind of asteroid strikes it soon.