“Free” College Comes at a Price
November 23, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… In order to abolish tuition fees, governments must find other ways to limit costs. These methods are not without their down side. Continue reading →
D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together
November 12, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… We don’t need a license to let our children play. Continue reading →
Stanford Dean: 8 Basic Skills We’re Failing to Teach Young People
November 2, 2018 – Annie Holmquist …… The culture of coddling and protection we have built is the culprit. Continue reading →
John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher
October 30, 2018 – Brittany Hunter …… Gatto leaves behind a legacy that inspired thousands of people to challenge the premise on which our education system was built. Continue reading →
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 →