Editing Civics (section)

== Additional thoughts on civic education ==
[[Sudbury school]]s contend that [[values]], [[social justice]] and [[democracy]] must be [[Experiential learning|learned through experience]]<ref name="googr"/><ref name="sudva"/><ref name="Greenberg"/><ref name="Sudv4"/> as Aristotle said: ''"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."''<ref name="oxsci"/> They adduce that for this purpose schools must encourage ethical behavior and personal responsibility. In order to achieve these goals schools must allow students the three great freedoms—freedom of choice, freedom of action and freedom to bear the results of action—that constitute personal responsibility.<ref name="sudv9"/> The "strongest, political rationale" for [[democratic schools]] is that they teach "the virtues of democratic deliberation for the sake of future citizenship."<ref name ="curr7"/> This type of education is often alluded to in the deliberative democracy literature as fulfilling the necessary and fundamental social and institutional changes necessary to develop a democracy that involves intensive participation in group decision making, negotiation, and social life of consequence.