Why Unschoolers Grow Up to Be Entrepreneurs
October 13, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… The fascinating link between unschooling and entrepreneurship. Continue reading →
Freedom Plus Responsibility: Why Unschooling Is Nothing Like ‘Lord of the Flies’
September 24, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Unschooling is often cartoonishly characterized by critics as a ‘Lord of the Flies’ environment, where kids run around wildly and chaos ensues. Continue reading →
Families First, Taxpayers Last
September 5, 2018 – Laurence Vance …… “The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.” …. Ludwig von Mises Continue reading →
In the Wake of Mass Shootings, Parents Reconsider Mass Schooling
July 26, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards it. Continue reading →
Freedom, Not Force, Creates Lifelong Readers and Learners
July 11, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Forcing children to read certain things at certain times is a sure-fire way to get them to hate reading. Continue reading →
Purpose-Driven Learning Is the Only Kind that Lasts
June 19, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… As Plato warned, “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Continue reading →
Colleges: Anti-Diversity and Pro-Exclusion
June 9, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats [and most of them are], those views can be described as leftist, socialist or communist. Continue reading →
First Impressions of an Unschooling School
May 31, 2018 – Jeffrey Howard …… Envision a school that is not compulsory or coercive, that is a completely student-directed educational environment, whose primary aim is to develop emotionally intelligent children who can live meaningful lives. Continue reading →
The Myth of Institutionalized Learning
May 14, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Why are we so convinced that children learn through rigid curriculum? Continue reading →
Educational Fraud Continues
April 30, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Colleges are admitting youngsters who have not mastered what used to be considered a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic. Continue reading →