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	<title>Life Learning with Wendy Priesnitz</title>
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	<description>Personalized, non-coercive, active, interest-led learning from life (unschooling)</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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		<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>The Roots of Unschooling Denial</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compulsory schooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If adults admit to the damage done to themselves by their schooling, they would have to question sending their own children to school. And that could be inconvenient. So denial rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Are Capable of Much More Than We Give Them Credit For</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radical unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child prodigy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protecting children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-reliance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent sailing misadventure of sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland and the successful climbing of Mount Everest by thirteen-year old Jordan Romero have me thinking about skill and ability as related to age. Whenever a kid accomplishes something major, it hits the media because children aren't expected to achieve much in our society. But the coverage usually involves adult disapproval more than admiration and encouragement.]]></description>
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		<title>What Really Matters is Now Available</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/07/what-really-matters-is-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David H. Albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-directed learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest book is hot off the press! What Really Matters by David Albert and Joyce Reed is now available. It is subtitled "Two veteran homeschooling advocates discuss what learning is really all about." ]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling: Doughnuts and Peanut Sauce</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radical unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Holt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-directed learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The ABC News show Nightline has recently featured “unschooling.” I guess budgets are low and the network is repurposing content – or at least ideas. Last month, one of the Nightline segment “reporters” did a similar piece, with a different family, on the ABC show Good Morning America. It was equally as ignorant, unbalanced, and sensationalist. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having Fun…For the Fun of It</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/05/23/having-fun%e2%80%a6for-the-fun-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/05/23/having-fun%e2%80%a6for-the-fun-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 15:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[play]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The notion that we have to make learning fun by dressing it up as games or other enjoyable activities is nonsense…and, more often than not, our kids know that, which lessens both the fun and the learning.]]></description>
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		<title>Resource for Canadian Life Learners</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/17/resource-for-canadian-life-learners/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/17/resource-for-canadian-life-learners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home-based learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeschooling movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendy Priesnitz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new website http://www.lifelearning.ca is a comprehensive resource about home-based learning in Canada.]]></description>
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		<title>We Know How to Learn…Until Schools Gets in the Way</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/11/we-know-how-to-learn%e2%80%a6until-schools-gets-in-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/11/we-know-how-to-learn%e2%80%a6until-schools-gets-in-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children innately know how to learn from birth. But adult arrogance and school steal that ability and then try to teach children how to learn.]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for Home Education in England</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/07/victory-for-home-education-in-england/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/07/victory-for-home-education-in-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home educators in England are cautiously optimistic as oppressive legislation dies as an election is called.]]></description>
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