Unschooling and Books: Oddments and Surprises

BOOKS TO BUY Moving a Puddle and other essays by Sandra Dodd Parenting a Free Child an Unschooled Life by Rue Kream

Triviality: Textbooks For Unschoolers

"So you don't use books?"

"Like fingernails on a chalkboard (something my children might never experience) that question breaks into a calm day from time to time. By books many people mean school-style text books designed for one subject area, one school year, one level. They mean school books. . . ."

Many schoolkids use books as escapism. What happens when an unschooling life is so peaceful that no escape is needed?

Joyce Fetteroll's excellent annotated list with links

Sandra Dodd's booklist for 8/18/01 talk on Questioning (at the bottom of that page)

Never tell a child "Go look it up." Parents, teachers, friends and countrymen, how would you like it?

Early thoughts on that tree of knowledge motif

Book worship Consider this piece of art, which is used to be the logo on my main Radical Unschooling page. More and more, I'm thinking our culture puts too much glory on books. The "book worship" page has to do with that prejudice, and I've saved a discussion about what besides people and books can bring about change (after someone made that spurious remark). If you have ideas about the problem of book worship and unschooling that you'd be willing to see on a webpage, send them to Sandra@SandraDodd.com

Medieval Books

OTHER LINKS: English Language reading

This is the book that doesn't end Yes it goes on and on my friend...