Posts Tagged ‘self-education’
What Really Matters is Now Available
Our latest book is hot off the press! What Really Matters by David Albert and Joyce Reed is subtitled "Two veteran homeschooling advocates discuss what learning is really all about." The official publication date is September 1, but copies are now available for sale (with no shipping!) to friends and subscribers. We are thrilled with all [...]
Quotations About Life Learning / Unschooling
As any unschooler / life learner and many homeschoolers know, there are many benefits to a self-directed education. However, I have always been surprised and pleased by how 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. [...]
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 [...]
Unschooling from a Father’s Perspective
Life Learning Magazine's publisher Life Media also publishes a small selection of books under The Alternate Press Imprint, founded in 1976. Our most recent book is For the Sake of Our Children by Leandre Bergeron. This book is unique in many ways. One of them is that it's a natural parenting memoir written from the perspective of a father who [...]
Beginnings: It Hasn’t Shut Me Up
As part of the process of writing a memoir called It Hasn’t Shut Me Up (my 10th book, to be published when it’s done), I’ve been examining the roots of my radicalism – especially as it relates to education. Like most other people, my upbringing and my schooling in the 1950s and ‘60s taught me to accept what I was told by my parents, my [...]
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 [...]
We’re All Life Learners
I’ve been doing the New Year clean-up shuffle over the past few days. Among the piles of random notes falling out of my journal and cluttering up my desk was this quote from John Holt: “People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.” When I first came across this [...]
Self-directed Learning Happens Everywhere
Reconciling our beliefs about the flawed nature of schooling with the need for education in the developing world is an ongoing dilemma for many unschoolers. It's often the basis for the criticism "it's okay for you to do, but..." There was, in fact, a spirited discussion on the topic about a year ago in the letters section of Natural Life [...]
Learning to Write By Doing It
I had a chat this morning with someone who was bemoaning kids’ use of technology. Her fifteen-year-old daughter wants either a cell phone or a laptop computer for Christmas, she said, but she and her husband are worried that the teen won’t “learn to write properly because of all that Facebook, Twitter and texting nonsense that young people [...]
The World is Discovering Autonomous Learning
"Kids learn on the Internet in an autonomous way, by looking around for information they're interested in or connecting with peers who can help them. This is a big departure from how they're asked to learn in most schools, where the teacher is the expert and there's a fixed set of content to master." I, and many other unschooling advocates, [...]