In 1912 Janusz Korczak founded Dom Sierot, the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, which was run on democratic lines until 1940, when he accompanied all his charges to the gas-chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp.
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As English aristocracy was giving way to democracy, Matthew Arnold investigated popular education in France and other countries to determine what form of education suited a democratic age.
The Family School is firmly in the Free Schools tradition, with no set curriculum, working on the basis that children are natural learners, and that it is the school's job to provide a rich environment as a context and medium for that learning.
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The Family School at Larkhall is a small, alternative school, based in South London, UK, founded by Polly Griffiths in 2007/8 to offer a Democratic education model to primary age children.
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