David Friedman wrote a fabulous post on the reasons he & his wife chose to unschool their kids. It is definitely worth a read - and check out the comments too, as many raise interesting points!

A related assumption is that you learn about a subject by having someone else decide what is true and then feed it to you. That is a very dangerous policy in the real world and not entirely safe even in school …. A better policy is to go out looking for information and assembling it yourself. Part of what that requires is the skill of judging sources of information on internal evidence …. That is a skill that is taught in the process of learning things for yourself, especially online. It is anti-taught by the standard model of K-12 education ….

Read the whole post….

The follow-up post, Home Unschooling: Practice, is also available. I’m off to read it!

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