Stories of an Unschooling Family
Education
Should children be responsible for their own educations? Or is that an irresponsible idea?
This week, I’m exploring lots of questions including:
Is learning an active activity that needs the learner’s cooperation?
Is it impossible to force knowledge into a child without resorting to teaching methods that ultimately destroy their natural love of learning?
Is forced learning real learning?
Is it better to unschool and let children learn what’s important to them?
But if we choose unschooling, will our kids, one day, accuse us of side-stepping our duty and not providing them with a good education?
Show Notes
Please visit my blog, Stories of an Unschooling Family, to read my post, Who Should Be Responsible for a Child’s Education, the Parent or the Child? It contains today’s show notes.
My Unschooling Books
The Unschool Challenge: Kindle
The Unschool Challenge: paperback
Curious Unschoolers: Kindle
Curious Unschoolers: paperback
Radical Unschool Love: Kindle
Radical Unschool Love: paperback
My Amazon Author Page
26: Forcing Kids to Learn and to Eat, and Should We Test Them?
25: Our Reluctance to Trust and Other Croaky Thoughts
24: Boy Stories
23: Unschool Maths: Why and How
22: Questioning Our Decision to Unschool
21: Being Honest: Talking about Mistakes and Perfection
20: (More) Apologies
19: Keeping Teenagers Safe from the Dangers of the World
18: Resolutions, Reading, Writing and Coarse Language
17: Unschooling Resources: Discoveries of 2014
16: Why We Are Rotten Parents and Other Christmas Stories
15: Books, Music, Burnout and a Mystery!
14: How to Talk and Save Lives, and Can I Mention the Weather?
13: About Me, About Podcasting, About Adventures!
12: A Baby's Birth and Death, and Christmas (Again!)
11: Teenagers, Rules and Rebellion
10: Should a Child Be Given the Freedom to Choose?
9: Mothers, Unschooling and a Lazy Way of Life
8: Beginnings and Endings, and a Simple Christmas
7: Unschooling Children, a School Teacher Father, and Tea
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