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In the Sudbury School I work at, this does not happen. Occasionally there can be anger, but people get over it fairly quickly. It is not considered about winning or losing. It is a completely different frame of mind.
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I wish we could do counterfactual analysis. I would love to see if it was traditional education that led people to requiring a class to learn or if it is intrinsic. As a species, we certainly have strong mentoring needs for learning mastery
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Nothing is a panacea. There will always be those who have trouble with whatever your approach is. The reason for expulsion is generally violence. We bent over backwards with one kid, but he was violent and neither he nor his parents showed
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I work at a Sudbury School and my experience does not support this. My take on this is that we have a community rooted in a fundamental acceptance of people that tolerates disagreements. Different attitudes and views are welcomed. Thus grou
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This in the comments of the page is a good response: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmi... Essentially, the test is too limited for its purposes. A huge advantage for LaTeX
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I started with Textmate, liked it, but then the community lost interest. I followed them to Sublime. I never got comfortable with Sublime though it is hard to recollect why. I just kept getting frustrated with it. Then people started talki
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I wrote a markdown based version of literate-programming that allows one to write it with lots of comments and organize the code in anyway you wish. But then when compiled, you can see all the code without all the long comments. You can sti
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There is no need to feel guilty. In general, many people need to detox from a childhood that lacked sufficient freedom to explore and become a full human being. Their internal programming then takes college and its new freedom as an opportu
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I certainly had that idea before I started. I think we all do. And I hope it may happen here and there. Mentoring and collaboration are to me the true teaching models that work for humans. But interests have to align, of course. We are stil
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This is a school where kids have a great deal of freedom, particularly in regards to eating. This leads to messes. I write the worst messes up to be adjudicated by our Judicial Committee (a team of students and possibly a staff, depending o
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But do you learn the importance of practice from someone saying "Do these problems and you get a gold star?" or by letting someone try to accomplish what they want to do and letting then learn the value of real, thoughtful, purpos
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Students need not graduate from a Sudbury school. They can simply age out of it. In general, it is not an accredited diploma and so it is only if a student wishes to do so. But the process if a student choose to do it is to answer the quest
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Every Sudbury school startup is its own thing. Each school is different in its own way, much like different tribes of humans. There are a few basic common elements such as Judicial Committee and School Meeting, but each school forges its ow
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When you come from a place of ownership of your own life, you can accept doing whatever needs to be done. I am a janitor with a math phd that gets to have water gun fights with kids; I work at a Sudbury school. I am much happier cleaning to
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I found the recent series by the Digital Antiquarian to be very interesting on this, weaving together Infocom's Trinity series and the atomic bomb history, including the Tsar Bomba. http://www.filfre.net/2015/01&#x
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I work in a Sudbury school where we have two kids diagnosed with autism. When they first arrived, they had some problems. But in the free environment of our school, they have become as amazing as all the other children in the school. I don&
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You can return it within 30 days of receiving it for a full refund. This means you can do your own review which is really all that will matter. I am hoping that it helps greatly with special keys compared with standard keyboards. I am very
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Hardly desperate. One can easily derive Bohm's equation even before Schrodinger's equation just by using de Broglie's relation. It is not about intuitions form the classical world, but rather noting that we have particulate e
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The wave of one particle is just a suitable approximation. The wave is a wave in configuration space, one for the whole universe. This is also what it is in standard quantum mechanics or in many worlds. It is always the same wave. Somehow B
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Try reading some of the stuff from http://www.bohmian-mechanics.net/ I was a student of Sheldon Goldstein of that group and can attest that it has no problems with many particles. In fact, part of my thesis was explaining
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Try reading http://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.2211.pdf This basically presents many worlds as a mass density obtained by integrating out the wave function. The worlds we see can be traced through the evolution, like two videos
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I never understand why the double slit experiment puzzles people. Is it not clear that we are dealing with particles guided by a wave? This is Bohm's theory and it works perfectly well for answering these questions.
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The keyword is "local". Non-local hidden variables is trivial (Bohm's theory) in that we just posit the particles have positions and are guided by the wave function. Hence, particle and wave properties. Simple, clean, clear,
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I wrote a literate-programming compiler to deal with JavaScript programming (any language works, but js is the one I use the most); it use markdown as the language in which the code is embedded. For me, prototype setup and async stuff seeme
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A scientifically minded approach to pain can be found at https://www.painscience.com/ No magic bullets, but perhaps something that can help. As for my two cents, I like trigger points. I have used that technique effectively
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Standard quantum mechanics only has the wave function. The thing you object to in Bohmian mechanics is the wave function. Both are nonlocal. You should object to both. In particular, standard quantum mechanics gets results of experiments by
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It does focus the discussion clearly on the wave function as defined on configuration space, bringing to the front the importance of position. But mostly the reason is that if you are going to develop a better theory (namely how relativity
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My thesis advisor does get NSF funding and he does Bohmian mechanics. I have a very talented colleague doing this as well and he ended up with tenure recently. But it is a very hard road. I did a thesis on it which I am quite proud of. But
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I would say that homeschooling is better than traditional schooling, but it really lacks the freedom, responsibility, independence, and socializing that Sudbury schooling has to offer. A good article trumpeting this up is http://
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You've been given the task of controlling lots of kids, squishing their natural learning desires and ways. This should be draining as it is against the ways of how we evolved. See for example http://www.salon.com/2013&

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