(2009-09-21) Yitan Unschooling

Attended Yi-Tan call about UnSchooling. Need to add some notes...

• PsPirro was there. Her blog has lots of unschooling stuff, and she has a Self Published (via Lulu) manifesto.

• Grace Llewellyn books were discussed

  • Teenage Liberation Handbook ISBN:0962959170 is the classic

  • Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School ISBN:0471349607

  • Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School ISBN:0962959138

Frank Smith: The Book of Learning and Forgetting ISBN:080773750X In this thought-provoking book, Frank Smith explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life. The author eloquently contrasts a false and fabricated "official theory" that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teachers and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed "classic view" that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities.