BcBc: Unschooling

Post Script:
Another great book is "The Contiunuum Concept" by Jean Liedloff. She talks about child-rearing among the Yaqana of the Amazon that she lived with. It's a really great exploration of the anarchism, liberation, etc... of indegnous child-rearing (or lack thereof) practice.


[To the frequently voiced complaint that the word "unschooling" seems negative, this was written years ago and has not been bested:]
"Lots of people make this point, but I never see the negation as negative in a value-judgment sense when I use the word--to me unschooling is as positive as unchaining, unbinding, unleashing, unfolding, unfurling, unlimiting...

"All mean freedom and growth and vast possibilities to me."
-Suzanne Carter


and props to Adam Hintz for homeschooling his daughters!
"Re:The Status Quo Game!!!!" AdamHintz

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: how to quit school and get a real life and education
by Grace Llewellyn
(This one is a real real real gem!!!! This really filled me and did wonders, it's so alive and assuring and amazingly-good OMGforsure)

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution
by Derrick Jensen

The Unschooling Unmanual
Daniel Quinn's Essay: Schooling: The hidden Agenda (get it off ishmael.org)


My friend!:
catzie690

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[cchilder]

these all sound really good. i tend to forget about this whole realm of problems associated with school. as soon as you're out, you conditioned to forget that bad stuff ever happened. its really scary actually. frightening...

[themajikat]

yeah, i absolutley agree

[AdamHintz]

Wow! It's soo cool to hear you connected with catzie. Of course, I resonate with this. Some of these books I'd like to pick up. Maybe I should start listing these suggestions on IshThink.

[themajikat]

@AdamHintz "One fo the most revolutionary things you can do is raise a healthy child" - Jensen

[benw0602]

thumbs up for the thinggy :D

[mikezephyr]

Hey, if I didn't know it, I'd suspect Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 'anarcho-primitivist' from Eugene Oregon- the Discourse on Inequality I mean.

But on the topic of Education- read book four of Emile. that's some radical stuff.

[VedekDrew]

Great work young sir!

[catzie690]

Yay! Good topic! ;-)

I haven't read the Unschooling Unmanual yet, though I want to get my hands on it at some point... Another book with a great collection of articles on unschooling is Life Learning: Lessons From the Educational Frontier.

[bbbleaver]

teen liberation handbook is awesome... i have a copy for myself and my son.

great list! we're lead to believe our schools are suppose to serve people and prepare our youth for a good life... but in reality they only serve our economy - acting as a flood gate pumping out people with zero skills and zero survival value - perfect for mindless factory work or work as servants.

[ozjthomas]

Cool. I still have to chek out some of those books one day.