To: Fedora
If you're interested, I found these authors to be extremely enlightening wrt "education" and homeschooling. Nock and Gatto were the straws that broke this camle's back and affirmed my decision to leave teaching.
Albert Jay Nock "American Education"
John Taylor Gatto Any of his essays (google Gatto seven lesson teacher) portions of his book are on his website.
Grace Llewellyn Author of "A Teenage Liberation Handbook", also has a website.
and, of course, John Holt (website).
13,282 posted on
03/09/2004 12:31:07 PM PST by
Lil'freeper
(By all that we hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!)
To: Lil'freeper
Thanks for the great links! I bookmarked and skimmed them and will study them more thoroughly later. I've considered writing something along the lines of that Teenage Liberation Handbook, so I'm especially interested in that one.
To: Lil'freeper; Fedora
Yesss! Gatto is excellent! I haven't read Nock, but if you liked Gatto's books, I'd probably like Nock as well.
OK, will catch up on other posts later. Haven't had much time to post this afternoon...
13,290 posted on
03/09/2004 1:21:42 PM PST by
RosieCotton
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