Grace Llewellyn: Teenage Liberation Handbook
Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn is an excelent read for teens thinking of leaving school.
Linda Dobson
Linda Dobson is another prolific author in the homeschooling area.
Homeschooling handbook: answers 88 most important questions about HS - Linda Dobson
First Year of Homeschooling your Child - Linda Dobson
Any books by this author are worth reading.
Mary Griffiths - The Unschooling Handbook
The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom:
Another book by Mary Griffiths is Homeschoolong Handbook:
- any by this author are good to read.
John Taylor Gatto: Bootie Zimmer’s Choice
The government began to compel us all to send our children to school in 1952 in the state of Massachusetts, and from that state the compulsion spread south, west, and north. But did you know that in 1818, 34 years before compulsion laws began, Noah Webster estimated that over 5 MILLION copies of his Spelling Book had been sold? That’s pretty good in a population of under 20 million, don’t you think? And every purchase decision was made freely, by an individual or a family, and there were no federal, state or city tabs to run bulk purchases on — each decision was made privately, and in each somebody forked over some cash to buy a book.
That would seem to suggest that most folks don’t have to be compelled to learn, they do it on their own, because they want to.
John Taylor Gato
John Taylor Gatto has written four excellent books, and has also published some audio tapes and videos. John has seen that between schooling and television, our children have precious little time to learn for themselves about the community they live in, or the lives they might lead. Instead. they are schooled to merely obey orders and become smoothly functioning cogs in the industrial machine.
Three classics by John Gatto, Dumbing us Down, Exhausted School and A different Kind of Teacher are available from www.johntaylorgatto.com/bookstore/index.htm and also Amazon.com
John Taylor Gatto - “Underground History of American Education” is the result of a lifetime of teaching and research. This is the definitive book about the origins and effect of our education system. Most of the text of this book is on-line at www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm.
Some essays by John Taylor Gatto:
- Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech
- I may be a teacher, but I’m not an educator
- The Curriculum of Necessity
- Boote Zimmer’s Choice
John Gatto is very prolific! Visit his website for more information: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
Otherways - Issue 99 - February 2004
- Events, Science at Monash, Imax, Other Events
- Letters from Home
- Socialisation
- The S Word
- Socialisation: The Dictionary Definition
- Does School Socialise Children?
- The Valedictorian Who Failed Socialisation
- A Homemade Chemistry Set
- Special Needs or Just Special?
- Licola Memories
- Children’s Pages
- Writing Topics
- The Down Syndrome Family
- Personal Solutions, Family Solutions
- Thoughts on Unschooling and Television
- Out of the Archives - Pestalozzi