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	<title>Life Learning with Wendy Priesnitz &#187; public education</title>
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	<description>Personalized, non-coercive, active, interest-led learning from life (unschooling)</description>
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		<title>Unschooling is Nothing New</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/09/07/unschooling-is-nothing-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric – in the media, on social networking sites… – about “unschooling” is in overdrive these days. Whether the discussion is positive or negative in nature, the phenomenon is often breathlessly and incorrectly described as new or unorthodox. In fact, unschooling life learning is the way people naturally learn and school is the new-fangled way of doing things. Real learning has always been driven by interest and curiosity rather than by artificial motivation by teachers using a one-size-fits all agenda. Schooling is a relatively recent – and ineffective – attempt to standardize the learning process, but it can’t remove the learner’s control over learning. ]]></description>
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		<title>Computers and Self-Directed Learning</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/18/computers-and-self-directed-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What educational researchers fail to remember is that no matter what sort of manipulation, supervision or technology is directed at the educational process, people learn what they want and need to learn. And that's an education.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fast Food Model of Education</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/12/the-fast-food-model-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education Books by Wendy Priesnitz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A curriculum is a fast food diet of other people’s ideas that is fed to children in schools. It is designed by a group of people assumed to be much better qualified than mere parents – let alone children – to decide exactly the type of information that should be fed, and when, and how its digestion should be measured. However, that very process results, more often than not, in what I call “fast-food education.” It is no wonder that many students have to be forced to eat this diet...and in many cases fail to digest it. Its standardized content is often bland, bulked up with fillers, and short on flavor. Its delivery is regimented and, many times, uninspired. School children are seldom consulted as to their tastes, or even level of hunger, let alone trusted to understand their own nutritional requirements or dietary quirks! The force-feeding process is so relentless that many students gag on it, in some cases becoming permanently soured on learning.]]></description>
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		<title>Quotations About Life Learning / Unschooling</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/04/quotations-about-life-learning-unschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many writers, thinkers and doers from various times in history have also known and written about the folly of school and the importance of a learner-directed education. Here is a collection of quotes about unschooling, life learning, self-education and schooling.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With the Schooling Mentality</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/04/whats-wrong-with-the-schooling-mentality/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/04/whats-wrong-with-the-schooling-mentality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto writes about how and why the marketplace of ideas has become monopolized by corporations and institutions, and our coercion-based education system used to create a society of consumers rather than one of thinkers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Unschooling Quotes by Women</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/10/wanted-unschooling-quotes-by-women/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/02/10/wanted-unschooling-quotes-by-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's remedy the problem of the lack of women's voices in those ubiquitious lists of quotations about the shortcomings of school and the benefits of unschooling.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Progressive to Force Regulation by a Dinosaur</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/12/17/its-not-progressive-to-force-regulation-by-a-dinosaur/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/12/17/its-not-progressive-to-force-regulation-by-a-dinosaur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Articles demanding government regulation of homeschooling and unschooling are designed to prop up the dying dinosaur that is public education, rather than to solve a problem with homeschooling.]]></description>
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		<title>Librarians Are Tech Savvy</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/12/librarians-are-good-learning-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/12/librarians-are-good-learning-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarians have traditionally (and probably unfairly) had a conservative reputation. But they and their libraries are the best example I can think of for a replacement for schools and their teachers. After all, libraries are publicly-funded learning institutions, open to everyone and mostly free to use…but usage is not compulsory nor monitored in any way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School is Not the Solution for Stressed Out Toddlers</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/05/school-is-not-the-solution-for-stressed-out-toddlers/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/05/school-is-not-the-solution-for-stressed-out-toddlers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pre-schoolers are reported to be suffering from anxiety and depression as a result of "attachment disruption." And the solution seems to be more attachment disruption.]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling Extends John Dewey’s Legacy</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/02/unschooling-extends-john-dewey%e2%80%99s-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2009/11/02/unschooling-extends-john-dewey%e2%80%99s-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 20 marked the 150th anniversary of John Dewey’s birth. If he were alive today, the educational reformer would no doubt be aghast at the fact that the dominant educational philosophy still mimics that of an assembly line, with memorization and regurgitation of isolated “facts” organized in a pre-determined curriculum continuing to be important aspects of [...]]]></description>
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