by Kerry McDonald When my husband and I first committed to homeschooling when my oldest was just two-years-old, I thought for sure that by the time she was five we would be following an …
Schools Can Create Stupidity
By Patrick Farenga The teacher and author John Holt wrote this letter to Mothering magazine in Spring 1983 that neatly sums up an often unrecognized problem caused by universal compulsory …
Why We’re Not Going Back To School in the Fall
by Tracy Barsamian Ventola Last fall, we quit formal schooling. We stopped dragging our seven-year-old daughter—kicking and screaming—out of bed each morning. We no longer held our breath each …
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Without a Diploma, Does the Scarecrow Have a Brain?
by Shannon Hayes It was less than a week after I’d defended my Ph.D. dissertation when I sat down at my computer to complete Cornell University’s online graduate placement questionnaire. …
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Worth Looking For
by Ben Hewitt (previously published on March 19, 2014 at www.benhewitt.net) I went out last night to visit my friend Paul, and we sat around his kitchen table for a couple hours, solving all our …
Children Teach Themselves To Read
Originally published on February 24, 2010 by Peter Gray in Freedom to Learn The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into …