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Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education

by Clark Aldrich

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The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools. From his experience with homeschoolers and unschoolers, education guru Clark Aldrich distills a revolutionary manifesto of 55 core ''rules'' that reboots our vision of childhood education and the role of schools. The include: {u25CF} Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know. {u25CF} Tests don't work. Get over it. Move on. {u25CF} What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom. {u25CF} Animals are better than books about animals. {u25CF} Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests. {u25CF} The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches. --… (more)
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Some interesting ideas, but really an essay not a book. ( )
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The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools. From his experience with homeschoolers and unschoolers, education guru Clark Aldrich distills a revolutionary manifesto of 55 core ''rules'' that reboots our vision of childhood education and the role of schools. The include: {u25CF} Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know. {u25CF} Tests don't work. Get over it. Move on. {u25CF} What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom. {u25CF} Animals are better than books about animals. {u25CF} Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests. {u25CF} The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches. --

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