Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves

6 best books like Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves (Alison McKee): The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, How Children Learn, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School, The Unschooling Unmanual

The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Author	John Taylor Gatto
ISBN	0945700059

Book online at the author's website

Ah, for the good old days, back before child labor laws, back when no had time for such inventions as "adolescence", back when one could sing a cute song about darkies or niggers without being a racist, back when flogging children in the name of civility was...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Author

John Taylor Gatto

Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.

Our children are being limited every...

How Children Learn

Author	John Holt
ISBN	0201484048

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...

Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything

Author

Laura Grace Weldon

Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education...

Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School

Author	Grace Llewellyn
ISBN	0471349607

GUERRILLA LEARNING IS CREATING A HOME ENVIRONMENT THAT FILLS YOUR CHILD WITH THE JOY OF LEARNING

Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner...

The Unschooling Unmanual

Author	Nanda Van Gestel
ISBN	0968575455

Amazing! It's short, but really got me thinking about the 'educational system', and what it means to learn. There are a lot of references to John Holt by the various writers that contributed, and I am inspired by them to go out and get books about children and learning that he wrote.

Some passages...