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Tag Archives: compulsory schooling
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
Rethinking our views on education and success
Occupy Wall Street is getting a lot of press in New York and across the country. Today I was reading through some (many) of the testimonials on the web site We Are the 99 Percent. What struck me like a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged A.S. Neill, College, compulsory schooling, corruption, debt, democracy, education, job, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, learning, life learning, mark frauenfelder, occupy wall st., student loans, success, unschooling, we are the 99%
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Where we stand now, with thanks to John Holt
Maya just finished reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and I am reading it now. This is a book I’ve always known about but never read. It is set in 1912 Brooklyn and follows a young girl named Francie Nolan … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Life Learning, Uncategorized, Unschooling
Tagged a tree grows in brooklyn, betty smith, Brooklyn, compulsory schooling, education, homeschooling, John Holt, learning, letters, life learning, unschooling
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Part of the truth, the half-truth and nothing but (some of) the truth
I am really tired of reading about school reform. Not because schools don’t need reforming, but because the conversation never, EVER changes. And neither do the schools. As John Gatto says, schools are not failing – they are doing exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged compulsory schooling, education, Finland, homeschooling, life learning, truth, unschooling
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