We sold Herman Daly’s book Steady-State Economics for several years in the John Holt Book and Music store. Though never a popular seller, John insisted on keeping it in the catalog. As time passes, I see more and more why John Holt wanted more people to know about this book and how hard it is for human-scale solutions to take hold in a world possessed by the massive consumption of goods and services as the best way for society to prosper.
Read MoreJohn Taylor Gatto, a famous schoolteacher and author, died last week. I knew him first as a writer and ally of unschooling, and eventually got to know him as a friend. John Gatto passed away on Oct. 25, 2018, and I want to share some of my memories of him. I took this photo of John in a dressing room at Carnegie Hall before he took the stage for his event, The Exhausted School.
Read MoreElsa Haas was not a well-known figure in homeschooling/ unschooling circles, but she was a model of the power of the individual to affect large social changes . . .
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