Unschooling

Resource description
Unschooling is an educational philosophy and practice that considers traditional schooling as possibly detrimental to a person's education. Unschooling is usually classified as a subcategory of homeschooling that does not use a fixed curriculum. Without any curriculum dictating a student’s learning path, the child is free to explore what he or she finds naturally interesting.

See Unschooling.

Readings

 * Deschooling our Lives ed. Matt Hern
 * Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
 * The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewelyn
 * Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
 * The Underground History of Public Education by John Taylor Gatto
 * Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
 * Savage Inequalities by Jonathon Kozol
 * Free Schools by Jonathon Kozol
 * Teach Your Own by John Holt
 * Networked Learning
 * School is a prison -- and damaging our kids, Peter Gray, Salon, Aug 26, 2013
 * "Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work."


 * Unschooling, the case for setting your kids into the wild, Ben Hewitt, Outside, August 12, 2014
 * "We Don't Need No Education, at least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The alternative: set 'em free."

Projects

 * Homeschooling will begin an index of resources for parents who practice homeschooling.
 * Learning by failing