Unschooling Dads: Twenty-two Testimonials on Their Unconventional Approach to Education Edited by Skyler J. Collins. Foreword by Sandra Dodd. 5″ x 8″, 156 pages Unschooling Dads: Alan Southgate, Art Carden, Chris Moody, Danilo Cuellar, David Friedman, David Martin, Earl Stevens, Edwin Stanton, Gregory Diehl, Jeff Till, Jeremy Henggeler, John Durso, Mike Durland, Pace Ellsworth, Parrish…
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Toward a Free Society – Full Book
Toward a Free Society A Short Guide on Building a Culture of Liberty by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalPaperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting…
Toward a Free Society – Further Reading
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 6, Moral Outrage Further Reading An Agorist Primer, Samuel Konkin IIIBasic Economics, Thomas SowellEconomics in One Lesson, Henry HazlittEducation: Free and Compulsory, Murray RothbardFree to Learn, Peter GrayNatural Born Learners, edited by B. E. EkokoNonviolent Communication, Marshall RosenbergParenting a Free Child, Rue KreamParenting Effectiveness Training, Thomas GordonParenting for a Peaceful…
Chapter 5 – Agorism
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 4, Radical Unschooling Chapter 5 – Agorism “Agorism is a libertarian social philosophy that advocates creating a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution.” So says Wikipedia.(44) What is counter-economics? According to the…
Chapter 4 – Radical Unschooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 3, Schooling Chapter 4 – Radical Unschooling As shown in the previous chapter, schooling is an extremely poor practice for building a culture of liberty. Parents who’ve begun building that culture at home through attachment and peaceful discipline will find schooling to be a major counter-productive step in the socialization…
Chapter 3 – Schooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 2, Parenting Chapter 3 – Schooling Schooling is the typical next step in a person’s life, and the socialization that occurs in school is quite ill-suited to building a culture of liberty. That’s the intent, actually. Modern schooling was founded in Prussia as a means to socialize children into the…
Resources
Voluntaryism, Free Markets, and Agorism [ezcol_2third]Books A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, H-H. Hoppe (download, multi) An Agorist Primer, Samuel E. Konkin, III (download, pdf) Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell (download, pdf) The Conscience of an Anarchist, Gary Chartier (download, pdf) Defending the Undefendable, Walter Block (download, multi) The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, H-H.…
The Philosophy of Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Philosophy is, etymologically, the “love of wisdom”. One of the best ways I’ve read to define wisdom is this saying, “Knowledge…
Episode 040 – Video Games are Awesome!, for Kids, and Everyone Else (0h45m)
Episode 040 looks at video games, how beneficial they are for developing minds and the parent-child relationship, and examines a few concerns made by modern parents. Listen to Episode 040 (0h45m, mp3, 128kbps)Show Notes Wikipedia.org, “Video Games“Peter Gray, “The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games“Peter Gray, “Video Game Addiction: Does it Occur? If…
Episode 039 – Criticisms of Unschooling, Rebutted! (1h14m)
Episode 039 offers a conversational style rebuttal of the criticisms found on the Unschooling entry at RationalWiki.org. Listen to Episode 039 (1h14m, mp3, 128kbps)Show Notes RationailWiki.org, “Unschooling“Peter Gray, “The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I From a Large Survey“Peter Gray, “A Survey of Grown Unschoolers I: Overview of Findings“SandraDodd.com, “Radical Unschooling” Resource PageLivingJoyfully.ca, Pam Laricchia’s Resource…