Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

" among its founders. He was a physics professor at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, and was described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".

Publications

;Books * 1964, ''Anaxagoras and the Birth of Physics'' with Daniel E. Gershenson
OCLC 899834
* 1973, ''Announcing a New School: A Personal Account of the Beginnings of the Sudbury Valley School'', * 1974, ''Outline of a New Philosophy'', * 1987, ''Child Rearing'', * 1988, ''Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me'', * 1991, ''Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School'', * 1992, ''The Sudbury Valley School Experience'' with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White, * 1992, ''Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience'' with Mimsy Sadofsky, * 1992, ''A New Look at Schools'', * 1992, ''Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley'', * 1994, ''Worlds in Creation'', * 1994, ''Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School'' with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg, * 1995, ''Sudbury Valley School Handbook'', * 1998, ''Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups'' with Mimsy Sadofsky, * 1999, ''Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept'' with Mimsy Sadofsky, * 2000, ''A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model'', * 2004, ''The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni'' with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka, * 2008, ''Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track'' with Russell L. Ackoff, . * 2016, ''A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School'', . * 2018, ''America at Risk: How Schools Undermine Our Country's Core Values'', . * 2018, ''Constructing reality: The Most Creative of All the Arts'', . ;Chapters * 1994, "Democratic to the Core: Life in Sudbury Valley School", in ''The Handbook of Alternative Education''. ;Papers * 1960
''Theory of Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Capture Reactions. II''
with Masato Morita, in '' Physical Review'', 119, pp. 435–437. * 1960
''Theory of the Hyperfine Anomalies of Deuterium, Tritium, and Helium-3⁺''
with Henry M. Foley, in '' Physical Review'', 120, pp. 1684–1697. * 1987
''Idea Notebook: Teaching Justice through Experience''
in '' Journal of Experiential Education'', 10(1), pp. 46–47. ;Articles * 1991, ''Learning without coercion: Sudbury Valley School'' in '' Mothering'', 58, pp. 102–105. * 1985-1992, regular column in the Middlesex News on education in America.Compiled in

References

External links

Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenberg, Daniel 1934 births 2021 deaths Columbia University faculty 20th-century American educators 21st-century American educators American education writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers