At the very end of my first post on this blog, Growing Without School, I promised to write about growing without faith. I’m finally ready to make good on that promise! I wrote then that I considered faith “the worst agent of intellectual poison, a cancer that most people willingly inflict upon their children’s developing [...]
I have observed during my years as a homeschooler that in general, teens who have been homeschooled stand out as qualitatively different from their schooled peers. They usually seem older than their years and remarkably independent, responsible, and competent. They often hold jobs (sometimes full-time ones), apprentice with craftsmen or professionals, and engage in sophisticated, [...]
(Pardon the dashed-off style of this post; it’s been a busy day.) Rebecca and I are unschoolers because we think school impedes learning and social development. Some, but not all, of the arguments against schooling apply to college as well. Certainly the fragmented instructional timetable and testing of college can be just as artificial as [...]
Johnathan and I decided to homeschool our children well before our first was even conceived. Our decision originally stemmed from our dissatisfaction with so-called traditional schooling, and our resolve was reinforced by my study of school psychology and my many hours as a “fly on the wall†in a variety of school classrooms (both public [...]