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Tag Archives: John Taylor Gatto
Ron Paul & the Dept. of Education
Ron Paul is in favor of doing away with the Federal Dept. of Education. On his webpage, he says that education decisions should be made at the state, local and personal level; that “parents should have the right to spend … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged 2001 Space Odyssey, Dept of Ed, education, hal, homeschooling, John Taylor Gatto, learning, life learning, Local, NYTimes, Ron Paul, school, States, taxes, unschooling, weapons of mass instruction
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Too much socializing?!
You know we’ve done more than our usual amount of socializing when Maya says, “I think I need a break from seeing my friends.” The weekend was great, and extended into today. 3 overnights in a row for Maya, one … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Socialization, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, John Taylor Gatto, learning, life learning, Maya, overnights, Riverside Park, Socializing, Sukkot, unschooling
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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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S-S-S-Saturday night
The Lion King is back in theaters! Joshua and I saw that movie together when we lived in our first apartment in Alphabet City. We were on 2nd St. between Avenues A & B, and although there was a drug … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged 3-D, Ben, dumbing us down, John Taylor Gatto, learning, life learning, Maya, the Hells Angels, The Lion King, unschooling, weapons of mass instruction
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At the beginning of another great read
In A Life Worth Living, (John Holt’s selected letters) Holt mentions a lot of other books; books by George Dennison and James Herndon and Ivan Illich. I’d read Illich’s Deschooling Society years ago, but other than that, the authors and … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged A Life Worth Living, education, George Dennison, homeschooling, How to Survive in Your Native Land, James Herndon, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, learning, life learning, public schooling, Susannah Sheffer, unschooling
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If I could lead the revolution
In his book The Underground History of American Education, and again in Weapons of Mass Instruction, author, homeschooling advocate and former NYC Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto says that one of the main reasons that our public education … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged apple, dice, Joel Klein, John Taylor Gatto, NYC schools, revolution
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The American Test
Maya is officially in her 5th year of education, according to the NY Dept of Ed, and as such, is required to take a standardized test and turn in the results, either with our 3rd or 4th quarter report. We … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged American Test, education, Hall of Mirrors, John Taylor Gatto, life learning, Life Learning Magazine, school, testing, unschooling
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