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John Holt, Secretary of Education? In Memory of George McGovern

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, Public School IssuesPatrick FarengaOctober 24, 2012Compulsory Education, George McGovern, How Children Fail, John Holt Comment

John Holt and Grant Colfax on Education in 1985

College, Homeschooling, John HoltPatrick FarengaAugust 14, 2012Grant Colfax, Homeschooling, collegeComment

Legendary Learning

Book Review, Famous Unschoolers, John HoltPatrick FarengaMay 18, 2012Homeschooling, Jamie McMillin, Legendary LearningComment

Slate Magazine Dumps on Homeschooling

Homeschooling Current Issues, Ivan Illich, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 16, 2012Homeschooling, Slate, criticism of homeschooling Comments

Reflections from an Adult Unschooler

Alternative schooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 8, 2012Astra Taylor, Growing Without Schooling, educational freedom, unschoolingComment

Homeschooling's Past Informs the Present

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaJanuary 31, 2012Finland, Homeschooling, School reformComment

Nothing in the World but Youth

Community, Famous Unschoolers, Homeschooling, John Holt, Legal IssuesPatrick FarengaNovember 8, 2011Teenagers, Turner Contemporary, Youth Comment

John Holt: April 14, 1923 to September 14, 1985

Homeschooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaSeptember 14, 2011GWS, Growing Without Schooling, Holt Associates, John Holt Comments

Varieties of Unschooling Experience

John Holt, Religion, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaJune 22, 2011catholic, christian, natural learning, unschooling Comments

Learning Foreign Languages or Just Learning to Play the School Game?

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, Learner-centered curricula, Learning and TeachingPatrick FarengaApril 28, 2011John Holt, School, foreign languages Comments

The Importance of Vulnerability in Learning

John Holt, Learning ChallengesPatrick FarengaMarch 3, 2011Brene Brown, How children learn, Learning, vulnerability Comment

About Talking To Children About The World

John HoltPatrick FarengaFebruary 23, 2011How children learn, John Holt, talk with childrenComment

Free resources and events for homeschoolers and unschoolers

Homeschooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaJanuary 21, 2011John Holt, TED, homeschool, unschooling Comment

Wondering About Life and Learning

Homeschooling Current Issues, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaSeptember 22, 2010Homeschooling, School, Segregation, child abuseComment

New Unschooling Documentary Preview

John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaSeptember 1, 2010Bob Kay, Dr. Robert Kay, Learning, TeachingComment

The Complacency of Sentimental Education

Homeschooling Current Issues, John HoltPatrick FarengaAugust 25, 2010Back to School, Homeschooling, John Holt, Schooling, Sentimentality Comment

Homeschooling's Liberal Judge and Other Piece's of Interest

College, Homeschooling Current Issues, John HoltPatrick FarengaJuly 27, 2010Cost of College Degrees, Gay marriage, HomeschoolingComment

John Holt on Children as Scientists, Spelling, and Observing Learning

John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaJune 22, 2010How children learn, John Holt videoComment

The Learning Revolution is already happening Sir Ken!

Alternative schooling, Homeschooling, John Holt, UnschoolingPatrick FarengaMay 26, 2010Sir Ken Robinson, homeschool, learning revolution Comments

Unschoolers Will Not Learn To Do Things They Don't Want To Do

Homeschooling Current Issues, John HoltPatrick FarengaApril 20, 2010John Holt, good morning america, radical unschooling, unschoolingComment