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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Justice vs. Law
The new season of “Whale Wars” started on Friday, and this year Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds are heading north to the Faroe Islands, where killing pilot whales is a 1000 year old tradition among the islanders. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged abolition, bully principal, cps, education, holocaust, just doing his job, justice vs. law, learning, life learning, paul watson, slavery, standardized testing, that which is not just is not law, unschooling, whale wars, william lloyd garrison
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What kind of life do you want?
If your favorite thing in life is to write stories, can you convince yourself to be an accountant? If nothing gives you more pleasure than studying animals, can you dismiss your passion and become a computer scientist? And even if … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Blake Boles, dale stephens, education, frank bruni, homeschooling, learning, life learning, made by hand, mark frauenfelder, matthew crawford, michael ellsberg, NY Times, nytimes op ed, opinion, Peter Thiel, quiet desperation, shop class as soulcraft, song still in them, Thoreau, unschooling
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Book club biography
For Maya’s book club meeting tomorrow, we’ve asked the girls to write a one page biographical story. It can be anything that has happened to them that they want to write down. It can be funny, sad, whatever. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged book club, book club biography, Christmas 1970, christmas pageant, learning, life learning, peace, three years old, unschooling
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What a week!
I hereby give my own mini standing ovation to all the event planners out there. You are sorely under-appreciated. Why is that, all you non-event planners might ask? Well. First there are the lists. Lists of attendees, rsvp’s, items … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged argentina, Ben, Better Than College, Blake Boles, brenna mcbroom, brenna's etsy shop, college towns, community, diamond shaped chairs, education, education of millionaires, etsy shop, evening with michael ellsberg, event planners are unsung heroes, event planning, homeschooling, learning, life learning, mario kart, Maya, michael ellsberg, not back to school camp, Seth Godin, squishies, unschooling, youtube
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Why it’s called a learning “experience”
Three days from now Michael Ellsberg will be coming in to talk to the NYCHEA community about his book, “The Education of Millionaires: It’s not what you think and it’s not too late.” This evening Michael and I were … Continue reading
Full Disclosure
It has come to my attention over the last week that because of my “radical” views on education and learning, many people make the assumption that I lead a particular lifestyle. Because we are life-learners, the assumption is that we … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Adam Levine, baseball, biggest loser, Chagall, charmed, education, homeschooling, learning, life learning, maroon 5, Met Opera, movies, pop culture heathen, salmon fishing in the yemen, superhero, the voice, twitter, unschooling, vampire diaries, Van Gogh
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Only a day or two to go!
Tomorrow I am meeting with my amazing web designer, Alison Leipzig, to go over final things for my website and to learn how to make changes and/or add content. I’ll tell you right now that the resources page is going … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged AERO conference, alison leipzig, Blake Boles, education, homeschooling, John Holt, learning, life learning, michael ellsberg, NYCHEA, portland oregon, unschooling
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Jeremy Stuart and “Class Dismissed”
As I mentioned yesterday, this morning I had the good fortune to meet and be interviewed by Jeremy Stuart for him upcoming film “Class Dismissed”. I’m so excited to be a part of this project in some small way, because … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Class Dismissed, homeschooling, Jeremy Stuart, learning, life learning, Lisa Nielsen, unschooling
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Big Day
I’m posting this from a hijacked computer tonight, as our internet has gone down and won’t be fixed till tomorrow afternoon. It’s been kind of fun to have an evening of forced separation from the computer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Class Dismissed, education, homeschooling, internet access, Jeremy Stuart, learning, life learning, Lisa Nielsen, unschooling
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