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Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum!

“We give children the opportunity to play, because when children are playing with something they get interested. And then you don’t have to teach, and you don’t have to police them either” says Rob Houben, manager of the Agora school in Roermond, Netherlands, and the closest thing school has to a principal or headteacher. The Agora School is the type of school you would design if you were to design a school around Making and Projects. A major issue with Making and Projects is trying to fit them into a school day when you have all of the structure of a traditional curriculum and subject matter. At the Agora School, students decide what and how they learn while being accountable for a set of core knowledge and skills that is focused on the learning process.  Read More about the Agora School.