Fertile Learning Environments

Declaration of Learner’s Rights and Responsibilities

(developed by Wondertree students)

  1. As a learner I have the right to allow my own experience and enthusiasm to guide my learning.
  2. As a learner I have the right to choose and direct the nature and conditions of my learning experience. As a learner I am responsible for the results I create.
  3. As a learner I have the right to perfect the skills to be a conscious, self-confident and resourceful individual.
  4. As a learner I have the right to be held in respect. It is my responsibility to hold others in respect.
  5. As a learner I have the right to a nurturing and supportive family and community. My family and community have the right and responsibility to be my primary resource.
  6. As a learner I have the right and responsibility to enter into relationships based on mutual choice, collaborative effort, challenge and mutual gain.
  7. As a learner I have the right to be exposed to a diverse array of ideas, experiences, environments, and possibilities. This exposure is the responsibility of myself, my parents and my mentors.
  8. As a learner I have the right to evaluate my learning according to my own sensibilities. I have the right to request and the responsibility to include the evaluations of my mentors.
  9. As a learner I have the right to co-create decisions that involve and concern me.
  10. As a learner I have the right and responsibility to openly consider and respect the ideas of others, whether or not I accept these ideas.
  11. As a learner I have the right to enter a learning organization which offers, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical support, and operates in an open and inclusive manner.
  12. As a learner I have the right of equal access to resources, information and funding.

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