John Holt – Teach your Own

“Teach your Own – The John Holt Book of Home Schooling” is about how we can teach children, or rather allow them to learn outside of schools. It is an updated version of his earlier book “Teach your Own”.

John Holt – How Children Fail

John Holt – John has written many books which are all classics in the home education world.
He wrote “How Children Fail” when he first began to realise that schools were hurting children and that they were entirely capable of teaching themselves.

John Holt – Escape from Childhood

John Holt has written many books which are all classics in the home education world.
Escape from childhood

John Holt – What do I do Monday?

John Holt has written many books which are all classics in the home education world.

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 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 [...]

Thomas Armstrong: In Their Own Way

In Their Own Way is probably the best of the books by Thomas Armstrong

Homeschooling the Teen Years by Cafi Cohen

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