Eighty-four years later, Goddard College, America’s first “college for living,” is still going strong.
Editor's note: After this story was completed, the author was hired to join Goddard's MFA creative writing department.
Among their credit requirements, students were required to work: They literally built part of the campus by designing and constructing buildings; in time they came to grow their own food; help run the school switchboard; work in the kitchen, the president’s office, and the maintenance shop; found their own food co-op; bake their own bread; and create their own fire department, responsible for fire safety on campus as well as assisting emergency calls in town.
“Radical learner-centered pedagogy: ‘What do you need to learn? How can I help you learn it?’ [It] puts the responsibility to think hard on the learner,” says Lucinda Garthwaite, who served on Goddard staff and faculty through the aughts and later became an academic dean. “And thinking hard is a bulwark against fascism.”
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