Editor’s Pick. Written by Lisa. Education is liberation, inspiration, self-realization and self-actualization.School is indoctrination, automation, dictation and regurgitation. Education is self awareness, not test preparedness.Independence, not checking attendance. Facilitation of creation.Not coercion and assertion. Schools teach rules to make tools. (It is a factory of fools.) Life’s teachers encourage grit, not ask you to submit.…
Category: Unschooling
Radical Unschooling vs. Permissive Parenting
Editor’s Pick. Written by Dayna Martin. Over the years, Radical Unschooling has been mistaken for “permissive parenting,” and many judgments have been made about it based on this misbelief. The truth is, Radical Unschooling is an extension of Attachment Parenting philosophy and is a very hands-on, involved approach based on connection, rather than control. The…
The Beginner’s Guide to Unschooling
Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. There’s nothing I get asked about more as a parent than unschooling, and nothing I recommend more to other parents. It’s an educational philosophy that provides for more freedom than any other learning method, and prepares kids for an uncertain and rapidly changing future better than anything else I…
The Most Basic Freedom Is Freedom to Quit
Editor’s Pick. Written by Peter Gray. In general, children are the most brutalized of people, not because they are small and weak, but because they don’t have the same freedoms to quit that adults have. Anthropologists tell me that this is not so true in hunter-gatherer cultures, because children there, to a considerable degree, can…
Public Schools: The Battleground Of Ideology
Editor’s Pick. Written by Homie Freemarkets Lebowski. The belief that we don’t want anyone else deciding what our kids are taught is one of the principal reasons libertarians, minarchists, voluntaryists, and other small-government types oppose the very idea of government education. If we want to teach our kids x, and someone else wants to teach…
Educational Freedom
Editor’s Pick. Writtin by Arnold Kling. Most of us went to school when we were younger, and we cannot imagine otherwise. However, it may be worth contemplating radical alternatives to the notion of school. The conflict between schooling and libertarian principles appears to me to have widened in the age of the Internet. On the…
Education is Not the Same as Schooling
Editor’s Pick. Video by LearnLiberty.org.
The Myth of the Uninvolved Unschooler
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jamie Martin. I remember the first time I heard the term unschooling. I was standing on a street corner chatting with a homeschooling neighbor, who used the term. “What’s that?” I asked. While I can’t remember her exact definition, I remember my reaction–far from positive. It sounded to me as though…
When Did I Become an Unschooler?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Carolyn Morrison for GuiltFreeHomeschooling.org. I went to public school for my education. It was a rural school with Kindergarten through twelfth grade all in one rather small, three-story building. The teacher-to-student ratios were fairly low, since most classes rarely exceeded twenty students. Most of the teachers used traditional methods of oral…
Six Dangerous Miseducation Lessons You Should Unlearn Immediately
Editor’s Pick. Written by Todd Walker for Survival Sherpa. Schools teach many things. These dangerous lessons may not be explicitly taught, but they are definitely ‘caught’ by every student – even parents. Good or bad depends which side of the desk you’re on. As an insider, I’m giving you my top six most dangerous lessons…