(2002-03-05) j

Erik Demaine, a nice example of UnSchooling. Assistant professor at MIT, age 20. And it rested on a risky assumption about the academic world: That If you called up a professor and said your son had some questions about his work, that professor would invite you in, and start teaching... The father's educational theory went like this: Apart from one hour of home schooling a day, the child should pursue his own interests.