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Learning to Write
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when… More.
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Keep Your Eyes Open
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep… More.
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Put Them in a Box
I watched Waiting for Superman recently. It’s an exasperating film, full of unfounded assumptions, not least of which being the assumption that putting kids in… More.
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Just Let Them Go
From an article by Richard Elmore, instructor at the Harvard School of Education, on the modern secondary school: I wonder, finally, what would happen… More.
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Masters & Taskmasters
In the 1970s polymath Herbert Simon floated the idea that true mastery of a subject or skill takes 10,000 hours or so of… More.
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School is Prison
Classic Peter Gray: If you think school is not prison, please explain the difference. The only difference I can think of is that… More.
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Attention Deficits
Out in the world the other day I heard a young boy of seven or eight get scolded for not paying attention. The… More.
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Lazy. So?
Ronnie Maier did a great job in her recent blog post debunking the notion that unschooling = lazy parenting. I suspect unschoolers will… More.
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Tipping into Unschooling
Before we were unschoolers, we were homeschoolers. We were relaxed about it, pursuing a makeshift curriculum that touched on all the basic stuff… More.
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You Have to Be Carefully Taught
Apropos of “enhanced pat downs” and “full body scans” and all the rest of it we’ve been hearing about as the holiday travel… More.
