‘Life Learning Magazine’ Archives
Life Learning – the book
Last year, we published a book of essays from Life Learning Magazine, which has been a great hit among unschoolers as well as those who are curious about unschooling. Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier demonstrates how families are embracing this learning lifestyle - and making it the fastest growing segment of the homeschooling [...]
Unschooled Teens Are Different
There has been some discussion lately about (and by!) teenaged life learners. All too often, teens are collectively discriminated against or looked down upon due to their supposed bad behavior, moodiness, etc., etc. However, I think much of that is due to the way they are treated in our society...and people's expecta...tions of and respect for [...]
What’s Wrong With the Schooling Mentality
The marketplace of ideas has become monopolized by corporations and institutions, and our coercion-based education system is used to create a society of consumers rather than one of thinkers. For almost twenty years (since he resigned from teaching while he was New York State Teacher of the Year), John Taylor Gatto has been writing and [...]
The Dark Side of Influence
A recent blog post by a dad with kids enrolled in a Sudbury Valley type school (SVS) has prompted me to think once again about how life learning parents relate to their children in a unique way. The blogger was comparing unschooling to the SVS model because someone had once used the oxymoron “unschooling school” to describe a SVS. He came up [...]
March/April 2010 Issue Now Published
Subscribers to Life Learning Magazine have just been notified that the password-protected March/April 2010 issue is now available for them to download. You can view the table of contents here and you can subscribe here. We've also posted a short sample article from the issue on the Life Learning Magazine website. Drop by the website and [...]
Preview of March/April issue of Life Learning Magazine
We're working hard on the March/April issue of Life Learning Magazine. Here's a preview of the cover. There will be a great new article by John Taylor Gatto; a brilliant piece by David Albert about sorting out our own philosophy of life, parenting and education; and lots more wonderful inspiration and reassurance for unschoolers. (Yes, I'm [...]
Accessing Articles From Life Learning Magazine’s Archives
Although we charge for subscriptions to Life Learning Magazine, we aim to keep approximately 15% of the content from back issues available on the site for free. We've recently made that simpler for you to find. Now, on every page of the website (left hand column, halfway down, is a link to the archive of articles that are on the site. We are [...]
Labels That Unschoolers Reject
Our school systems like to label children, then medicate them for these so-called problems. Kids are said to be "learning disabled," "hyperactive," "oppositionally defiant," and to have a variety of other "disorders." I've written about this for years, preferring to think that the problem is with the schooling system rather than with the [...]
January/February Issue of Life Learning
The password-protected January / February 2010 issue of Life Learning Online is now available to subscribers. Not a subscriber yet? Here's where you can check out what you're missing. Subscribe today and receive access to the PDF as the first issue in your subscription. Your online subscription will also include access to PDFs of all the [...]
Preview the Cover of Life Learning’s Jan/Feb 2010 Issue
We're hard at work putting the finishing touches on Life Learning's January/February 2010 online edition. It will be ready later this month and includes an assortment of articles and essays about unschooling and self-directed learning. Included are pieces about deschooling ourselves in order to match our parenting to our children's needs, a day [...]