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"You could grow up to be President!"
not applicable in the U.K., Canada, NZ or Australia
No WAIT! It is!
LEARNING ALL THE TIME
People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering "What the heck is this!?"
My favorite and oldest discussion group is called AlwaysLearning, where the principles underlying unschooling are the topic.
On facebook, my less favorite but busier discussion: Radical Unschooling Info
CAN IT WORK IN THE REAL WORLD?
If unschooling can't work in the real world, nothing at all can. People will say "How will they learn algebra in the real world?" Is there algebra in the real world? If not, why should it be learned? If so, why should it be separated artificially from its actual uses? "Why?" should always be the question that comes before "What?" and "How?" There is a Sesame Street book called
Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum. There is a "things under the sea" room and "things in the sky" room, but still each room is just a room in a museum, no windows, everything out of context. Then he opens a big door marked "Everything Else" and goes out into the sunshine. There is unschooling. Don't pay over $5 for it.
Because it's available as a kindle book, the used-book prices went back down! Amazon's listing (U.S.)
More images are here
NOT JUST FOR KIDS!
The way adults tend to learn things is the way people best learn—by asking questions, looking things up, trying things out, and getting help when it's needed. That's the way pre-school kids learn too (maybe minus the looking things up), and it is the way "school-age" kids can/should learn as well. Learning is internal. Teachers are lovely assistants at best, and detrimental at worst. "Teaching" is just presentation of material. It doesn't create learning. Artificial divisions of what is "educational" from what is considered NOT educational, and things which are "for kids" from things which are NOT for kids don't benefit kids or adults. Finding learning in play is like the sun coming out on a dank, dark day. [Playing ]LINKS TO OTHERS' WRITINGS
Not needed these days...
SOME UNSCHOOLING ORGANIZATIONS
Regional groups, lists and resources
(by language, nation, state, religious or special focus)
THIS PAGE IS OLD for a webpage. The oldest preserved version is from August 2000 : http://web.archive.org/web/20000826220144/http://expage.com:80/RadicalUnschooling. It was at least a year old at that time (July 1999 or older). (Expage.com was an early free webpage-hosting site. Size was severely limited. We counted words and letters. When something was added, something else usually had to be deleted or shortened.)
Current and better main page, perhaps:
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Daily Inspiration:Just Add Light and StirBooksThe Big Book of Unschooling
 Moving a Puddle and other essays by Sandra Dodd
Sandra Dodd Speaking
There are many recordings available and others are added occasionally (from old tapes and CDs and sound files, as they come along and I get time to make them available.
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