Guest post by Nicole Olson. Asking, “What is unschooling?” is a little bit like asking, “What is love?” or “What is happiness?”. It means different things to different people. But within its broad framework, there are some fairly consistent themes and basic beliefs that most unschoolers embrace.What is unschooling… Belief #1: Children are hard-wired to…
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What I Learned in the Men’s Room
Guest post by Ted Olson. “Daddy, listen!” A common plea from my son, Thomas. I’m often lost in thought or working on a post, or trying to dictate a command. Getting my full attention can be difficult. Listening, really listening, is not easy. Yet, deep listening makes all the difference in a relationship. What does…
Chapter 22 – Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Four – Chapter 21 – “Whose Goal is it, Anyway?” by Pam Laricchia 22 Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd As I write, my children are 18, 21, and 23 years old. They are in Quebec, New Mexico, and Texas. I have time to review the effects of nearly…
Chapter 21 – Whose Goal is it, Anyway?
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Four – Chapter 20 – “What is Unschooling?” by Earl Stevens 21 Whose Goal is it, Anyway? by Pam Laricchia It all started with a plant. My husband was talking about training a plant – just the right combination of water and fertilizer, the right soil and sun conditions, a…
Chapter 18 – Schooling: The Hidden Agenda
Table of Contents Previous – Section Four – Chapter 17 – “The Trouble with Traditional Schooling” by Vahram G. Diehl 18 Schooling: The Hidden Agenda by Daniel Quinn A Talk Given at the Houston Unschoolers Group Family Learning Conference. I suspect that not everyone in this audience knows who I am or why I’ve been…
Chapter 17 – The Trouble with Traditional Schooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Three – Free Market Resources 17 The Trouble with Traditional Schooling by Vahram G. Diehl Traditional concepts and applications of learning have generally been one-sided. The “teacher” transmits information in the form of conclusions through words and images, while the “students” are expected to act as flawless receivers and adopters…
Everything Voluntary – About the Editor
Table of ContentsPrevious – Topical Guide About the Editor Skyler J. Collins lives with his beautiful wife and three wonderful children in Salt Lake City, Utah. He’s a voluntaryist libertarian, and an unschooler. He enjoys blogging and reading about anything on liberty, economics, philosophy, religion, science, health and childhood development. He and his wife are…
Everything Voluntary – Free Market Resources
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Three – Chapter 16 – “Agorist Living” by Nicholas Hooton Free Market Resources Books Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt“A million copy seller, [this book] is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern [free market] economics of the type…
We Are Born Impoverished
I just started reading Henry Hazlitt’s The Conquest of Poverty and before I got too far I wanted to jot down some thoughts I’ve had on the subject. As Hazlitt states in his very first line, “The history of poverty is almost the history of mankind… Poverty was the normal lot.” I would observe that…
Education in The 21st Century
Originally published in September 2011. A study published in July showed that people have become less likely to remember things that they know are only a click away on the Internet. In other words, our selective memory has expanded to exclude things easily found via a web search. I interpret this revelation as meaning that…