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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Rebellion on the brain
You know how you’ll be going along, living your life, not thinking about any specific subject, and then a certain topic will be EVERYWHERE? Every place you turn, someone is talking about it? Right now that topic is teen … Continue reading
In case you missed it
In case you don’t follow me or Michael Ellsberg on Twitter (shame on you!), here is a video of Sean Parker (Napster, Facebook) and Peter Thiel (Paypal, Thiel Fellowship) discussing higher education with Michael Ellsberg, author of “Education of Millionaires.” … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged education, education of millionaires, facebook, higher education, learning, life learning, michael ellsberg, Napster, paypal, Peter Thiel, sean parker, Thiel Fellowship, twitter, unschooling
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Looking ahead
Most of the families we know in New York City whose children learn outside of school are homeschooling, not unschooling. (Unschoolers still make up only about 10% of all the homeschoolers in the country, give or take.) And most … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, chile, education, hawaii, high school, homeschooling, iceland, italy, learning, life learning, macedonia, Maya, mongolia, russia, trans-siberian railway, ulaanbaatar, unschooling, Yearlong trip
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Don’t believe me? Ask the doctor!
Today Joshua and I were at a doctor’s office, and got to chatting with one of the physicians there. I cannot reveal his name, as I didn’t get his permission to do so. Suffice it to say that if you … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Columbia Universtity, doctor, doctor's office, education, google him, internet marketing company, learning, life learning, physician, physician's son, unschooling
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An intentional lack of ‘structure’
We don’t have a ton of structured stuff going on in our lives. And it’s not by accident. “Kids need structure” is a phrase that is used in defense of all sorts of heinous behavior and I have come … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged art, Ben, cartoon drawing, chicago, control, drawing for 50 cents, England, history, Indonesia, JCC, kids need structure, learning, life learning, Maya, new zealand, Phillippines, photography, Spanish, Spring, unschooling, video chat
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As it turns out…
…it’s not so easy to just NOT post. Turns out I really enjoy writing this blog, and the act of writing it gets my creative juices flowing. Which they were not doing earlier, as I sat in my … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged dayna martin, education, freedom, gratitude, John Holt, learning, license, life learning, Pat Farenga, Peter Gray, respect, sandra dodd, textbooks, unschooling, writing
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A brief pause….
Now that we are back from our mid-winter Bahamas break, I need to get to work on the text for my new website, coming to the internet sometime in March. The url (which isn’t functioning yet in case you … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged alison leipzig, blog, learning, life learning, unschooling, unschoolingnyc.com, worldschooling
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The long arm of ridiculousness
I blame the New York Giants (sorry Eli). If there hadn’t been a story on the front page of USAToday about the upcoming game between the Giants and the 49-ers I never would have picked up the paper. Which … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged bathroom breaks, cheating, huffington post, learning, life learning, New York Giants, ridiculousness, San Francisco 49-ers, standardized tests, symptoms, unschooling, USA Today
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Right now…
Right now, outside my window the surf has picked up and you can hear the wind in the palm trees. Off in the distance, a Carnival cruise ship steams away from port (we met some people at the water park … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel
Tagged Boulder, california, carnival cruise lines, homework, learning, life learning, Right now, travel, unschooling, water park
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Travel & perspective
It is so easy for us to forget that we are but one small part of something much larger. We live our lives, do our work, and much of the time our days are spent with many of the … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged end of the world, learning, life learning, routines, ruts, travel and perspective, unschooling
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