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…
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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…
Chapter 2 – Parenting
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 1, Introduction Chapter 2 – Parenting Having thus defined our terms, we can begin exploring the necessary prerequisites to building a culture of liberty, and ultimately, a free society. We must start at the same place where each if us began life, the home. Our parents are first to influence…
Spanking is Always Unnecessary III: Hurting Themselves or Others
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: IntroductionSpanking is Always Unnecessary II: Preventing Misbehavior It might seem logical to cause a child…
Episode 050 – The Requirements of Religion, Part Three (0h46m)
Episode 050 is the third part of a conversation analyzing the requirements that religion puts on children, and also adults. This list was sent to Skyler in a private correspondence with Wes Bertrand, who podcasts at CompleteLiberty.com, in the Spring of 2012. Listen to Episode 050 (0h46m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Skyler’s Blog Post, “Religion and…
Spanking is Always Unnecessary II: Preventing Misbehavior
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: Introduction Many parents justify their use of spanking and punishments as a way to prevent…
Building a Culture of Liberty VI: Moral Outrage
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. Building a Culture of Liberty I: DefinitionsBuilding a Culture of Liberty II: ParentingBuilding a Culture of Liberty III: SchoolingBuilding a Culture…
Episode 049 – The Requirements of Religion, Part Two (0h54m)
Episode 049 is the second part of a conversation analyzing the requirements that religion puts on children, and also adults. This list was sent to Skyler in a private correspondence with Wes Bertrand, who podcasts at CompleteLiberty.com, in the Spring of 2012. Listen to Episode 049 (0h54m, mp3, 128kbps)Show Notes Skyler’s Blog Post, “Religion and…
Qualifying Anarchism
We can qualify our use of anarchism, such as “organizational anarchism” or “pedagogical anarchism”… in which case we’re talking about, most likely, the absence of hierarchy within an organization or educational model (respectively, which may or may not be ideas within the broader context of political anarchism). Without the qualification, anarchism, historically, has been about…
Spanking is Always Unnecessary I: Introduction
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. The practice of spanking children in particular, and child punishment in general, was abandoned in my family in August of 2011.…