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To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School, Massachusetts, school is very different.

Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want to do. There are no teachers—only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old, ‘Go to explore your environment.’ You can’t stop them!” says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all taste for learning.”

At Sudbury Valley School, you will permit children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on computers, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!

The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each—even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school budget, and even which staff they want and do not want any more.

When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.

36. What is the main topic of the article?

A. An unusual school.                                      B. Children’s hobbies.

C. A school without rules.                                 D. Education in the US.

37. What does the school believe?

A. Teachers cannot teach children well.

B. Children learn best by doing what they want.

C. Learning is for adults rather than children.

D. Children should do what teachers tell them.

38. What can be inferred£¨Íƶϣ© from the last paragraph?

A. Parents well accepted the school.                       B. Some students have been ignored.

C. Fishing is good for students’ study.                       D. The school’s idea succeeds in some way.