This sounds like the kind of crap they teach in ed schools.
Yeah, right - the ed schools teach teachers to "let go" and "let the child direct his own education."
Didn't the educational establishment try this open classroom stuff or something like it? They provided the kids with EVERYTHING they needed to learn; the best books, equipment, computers, teachers avilable for help if asked for? Wasn't it an abysmal failure? If unschooling is so great, why did the highly regimented, structured, disciplined schools of the 1800's produce such a wealth of inventers, scientists, writers, and polititions? Seems to me that we just don't see people of that caliber these days; not to say that they don't exist but it sure seems that they're pretty scarce.