Unschooling and Books: Oddments and Surprises
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?
current about four years ago; newer books are linked at the bottom of this 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 a spurious remark about books).
Never tell a child "Go look it up." Parents, teachers, friends and countrymen, how would you like it?
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