“Free” College Comes at a Price
November 23, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… In order to abolish tuition fees, governments must find other ways to limit costs. These methods are not without their down side.
Educating Our Children
D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together
November 12, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… We don’t need a license to let our children play.
Stanford Dean: 8 Basic Skills We’re Failing to Teach Young People
November 2, 2018 – Annie Holmquist …… The culture of coddling and protection we have built is the culprit.
John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher
October 30, 2018 – Brittany Hunter …… Gatto leaves behind a legacy that inspired thousands of people to challenge the premise on which our education system was built.
Why Unschoolers Grow Up to Be Entrepreneurs
October 13, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… The fascinating link between unschooling and entrepreneurship.
Freedom Plus Responsibility: Why Unschooling Is Nothing Like ‘Lord of the Flies’
September 24, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Unschooling is often cartoonishly characterized by critics as a ‘Lord of the Flies’ environment, where kids run around wildly and chaos ensues.
Families First, Taxpayers Last
September 5, 2018 – Laurence Vance …… “The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.” …. Ludwig von Mises
In the Wake of Mass Shootings, Parents Reconsider Mass Schooling
July 26, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards it.
Freedom, Not Force, Creates Lifelong Readers and Learners
July 11, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Forcing children to read certain things at certain times is a sure-fire way to get them to hate reading.
Purpose-Driven Learning Is the Only Kind that Lasts
June 19, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… As Plato warned, “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”