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	<title>Life Learning with Wendy Priesnitz &#187; self-directed learning</title>
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	<description>Personalized, non-coercive, active, interest-led learning from life (unschooling)</description>
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		<title>Unschooling Teaches Us To Release Control Over Kids</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/24/unschooling-teaches-us-to-release-control-over-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/24/unschooling-teaches-us-to-release-control-over-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unschooling is about adults releasing control over children, and allowing them to live and learn autonomously.]]></description>
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		<title>Always Learning</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/22/always-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning never stops, so it's nonsensical to say that it will begin again when school starts.]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Summer Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/29/the-myth-of-summer-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many parents and teachers worry that kids will forget what they "learned" over the summer, but if they forget it that fast, it was merely memorized and not really learned.]]></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>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/12/the-fast-food-model-of-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<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>What Really Matters is Now Available</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/07/what-really-matters-is-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/07/what-really-matters-is-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autonomous learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
		<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[John Holt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media coverage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/?p=259</guid>
		<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>Quotations About Life Learning / Unschooling</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/04/quotations-about-life-learning-unschooling/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/04/quotations-about-life-learning-unschooling/#comments</comments>
		<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>Life Learning &#8211; the book</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/30/life-learning-the-book/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/30/life-learning-the-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Learning Magazine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 movement. ]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Right Way&#8230;So Let&#8217;s Lose the Insults</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/22/theres-no-right-way-so-lets-lose-the-insults/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/03/22/theres-no-right-way-so-lets-lose-the-insults/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no rules for the various styles of homeschooling and unschooling. It is, rather, a continuum, as families learn what works best for them and their children. So insulting each other's philosophies is unproductive, both to individuals and to the homeschooling movement.]]></description>
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