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Words of Sifaan Zavahir:
Alternative pedagogies are at least as old as the industrial-era, coercive, model of schools that comprise almost 100% of public education, and a vast majority of private education. However, any truly “alternative” pedagogy struggles for legitimacy because the conventional, majority education system is what sets the standards against which all approaches tend to be measured. However, there is an objective, legitimate measure of education that we can use instead – the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the most widely ratified international treaty ever. I propose to make the case that Democratic, Self-Directed Education is the system of education that is most compatible with the Rights of the Child (including but not limited to the Right to Education).