Featured Book: The Unschooling Unmanual
Feb.07, 2010 in
Books
Unschooling isn’t a technique – it’s living and learning naturally, lovingly, and respectfully together. The Unschooling Unmanual features 11 essays by 8 writers: Nanda Van Gestel, Jan Hunt, Daniel Quinn, Rue Kream, Kim Houssenloge, Earl Stevens, and Mary Van Doren. Through engaging personal stories, examples, and essays, the writers offer inspiration and encouragement for seasoned and prospective unschoolers alike.
See a series of articles by Nanda Van Gestel, 'Unschooling Adventures'.
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February 11th, 2010 at 11:41
I have read this book and thought it was lovely. I particularly liked Daniel Quinn's contribution, as he is not a home educator! Yet, he talks about pressing issues.
A few interesting quotes:
"But keeping young people off the job market is only half of what the schools do superbly well. By the age of thirteen or fourteen, children in aborginial societies – tribal societies – have completed, what we from our point of view, would call their "education".
They're ready to "graduate" and become adults. In these societies, what this means is that their survival rate is 100%.
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But the last thing we want our children to be able to do is to live independently of our society
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So you see that our schools are not failing, they're just succeeding in ways we prefer not to see. Turning out graduates with no skills, with no survival value, and with no choice but to work or starve are not flaws of the system, they are features of the system." (p. 48/49)
Well worth reading.