Source Home Education Magazine

Last week I was on my way out of a Dr.’s office and I was surprised to hear Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN Health Channel talking about the importance of unstructured learning for children.

He also mentioned Christopher Paolini so I visited the CNN Health Channel to try and find the report. I wasn’t able to find the excact one, but I did find an interesting interview that Dr. Gupta conducted with author Christopher Paolini last fall. You can access it at the CNN site here. (You will need to scroll down and click on “Environment sparks the genius inside?” that can be found within the green box titled WATCH on the upper right hand side)

There have been many unschooling articles in the news as of late and it is nice to see that some of them actually do see the value of allowing children to follow their interests at their own pace. I was reading my blog feeds this a.m. and saw that there was yet another decent peice on unschooling today!

You have to trust that the child will learn, ”Unschooling’ movement leaves education choices up to kids was published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 24, 2006 BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter

The whole report is a good read, but I particularly enjoyed the quotes below by Dorothy Werner and Pat Farenga:

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