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The difference between progressive education and Self-Directed Education lies in the understanding of how such whole-person education occurs.
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To the advocate of Self-Directed Education it emerges out of children’s natural drives to understand themselves and the world around them and to use whatever resources are available in their environment, including knowledgeable and skilled others, to achieve that end
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To the advocate of Self-Directed Education, it is the child’s brilliance, not a teacher’s, that enables excellent education.
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... imposed education interferes with self-directed education by consuming so much of children’s time, turning learning into something unpleasant, and planting in children’s minds the idea that they are not capable of controlling their own education.