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UNSCHOOLED Is Here!
UNSCHOOLED is available NOW wherever books are sold!
You can purchase the book at your favorite online retailer or local bookstore. Here is the Amazon link, which includes paperback, Kindle, and Audible versions!
Click here to read my interview with my publisher, Chicago Review Press.
Click here to listen to my recent interview with FEE's Lawrence Reed about Unschooled.
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“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates”
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
“Conditioned by coercive schooling, young people lose their autonomy and natural learning inclinations and are instead trained to be taught. This process, according to Illich, then translates into a lifetime of institutionalized thinking that eradicates personal power.”
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
“Thomas Jefferson, for instance, recognized the essential connection between education and freedom, writing in 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”12 Still, the institution of the family prevailed over the interests of the state. Jefferson advocated for a highly decentralized system of education, locally controlled by parents in small districts, or “wards” as he called them, with little government involvement. He also believed that parental rights and individual liberty outweighed mandatory compliance. In 1817, Jefferson wrote, “It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.”
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
― Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
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