Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education
10 best books like Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education (Clark Aldrich): Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling, Learning All The Time, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World, The Unschooling Unmanual, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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...
Is American education preparing the future leaders our nation needs, or merely struggling to teach basic literacy and job skills? Without leadership education, are we settling for an inadequate system that delivers educational, industrial, governmental and societal mediocrity? In A Thomas Jefferson...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0738206946 |
The classic and indispensable work on teaching children at home, fully updated for today's new laws, new lifestyles, and the growing new generation of homeschooling parents
Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded...
| Author | John Holt |
| ISBN | 0201550911 |
How small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world, without being taught
The essence of John Holt's insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children...
| Author | Mary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0761512764 |
I found this in the anemic "parenting" section of my new library. It's a lean little volume, mostly of extended quotes from self-titled "unschooling" parents. The technology is excruciatingly outdated (just go to AOL Member home to join a list!) circa 1997, and even though it calls itself a "handbook"...
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
| Author | Ken Robinson |
| ISBN | 0670016713 |
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
| Author | Ben Hewitt |
| ISBN | 1611801699 |
When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their...
| 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...
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
| Author | George Leonard |
| ISBN | 0452267560 |
"The pracitcal wisdom in George Leonard's book will have a great influence for many years to come."
—Michael Murphy, author of Golf in the Kingdom and The Future of the BodyDrawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author Gorge Leonard shows how the...
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
| Author | Salman Khan |
| ISBN | 1619697777 |
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents,...
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
| Author | Neil Postman |
| ISBN | 0679750312 |
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic...
The Call of the Wild and Free: Schooling That Reclaims the Wonder of Childhood
Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.
Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau—”All...
