What are the results of free education?

The results of free education are largely determined by the personality of the educator, and not by the methodology used by him. In general, free education was an important counterbalance to traditional education and was a historical step forward, however, free education has many weaknesses.

Traditional education is simpler, requires less qualification of the educator and causes less damage to material values.

Children start fewer fires and break windows less often.

Free education requires a much greater involvement of the educator, his time and his attention, and often creates additional difficulties with those around him, who do not understand and do not need such pedagogical experiments.

. Free upbringing gives unpredictable results, because when the parents stop raising the child, the child realizes only what was originally laid in him. Good things are laid — the child will grow up well. Controversial is put in place — the child will have problems with the child. Attempts to carry out free education in a mass and extreme version have so far ended sadly. See →

In particular, contrary to popular belief, free upbringing, giving the child complete independence does not at all lead to the development of independence. A child to whom you have given complete independence is just a child left to any other influences. And who is responsible for what they will be? See →

. As the main path, free education is not very suitable for the education of the elite. The modern European elite is brought up at Eton, where the upbringing is more hard-spartan and demanding than soft and free. On the other hand, the experience of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum shows that, surrounded by traditional totalitarian education, islands of free education for a specially selected elite also give impressive results.

Important: for a specially selected elite and surrounded by a traditional totalitarian upbringing. If these two conditions go away, impressive results go away.