One of the more useful ways to get in touch with how learning really happens is to ask yourself the question: how did you learn x, y or z? Most of the things we do as adults we learned “on the job” or through trial and error. Rarely did we learn any of what we … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Children’s time
From the book: “When my younger son was eight we lived in a one bedroom apartment in a co-op building in Brooklyn, NY. Our apartment was a small and bright place situated by a big and friendly lobby. There my son befriended a girl his age who also lived in the building, and I became friends with her mother. … Continue reading
Unschooling to College
(This is an excerpt from the introduction to the book I am now in the process of writing: “Unschooling to College; Adventures in homeschooling”) “The name of this book is intentionally misleading. After all, in this day and age who will pick up a book about an educational system that does not lead to college? So far, in … Continue reading
Opening Note
Unschooling to College aims to attract all who are interested in unschooling, whether seasoned “pros” or new to the idea and practice. Unschooling is an educational “non-system” that provides children with the freedom they need to allow learning to occur naturally while following their own unique way of making sense of the world around them. In other words: children who are unschooled do … Continue reading
Unschooling to College 