Collection Index. Teach Your Own. (Delacorte, 1981, by John Holt. Revised and updated by Patrick Farenga, Perseus 2003) Selection by John Holt: ...I have used the words "homeschooling" to describe the process by which children grow and learn in the world without going, or going very much, to schools, because those words are familiar and quickly understood. But in one very important sense they are misleading. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools but that it isn't a school at all.
Common Objections to Homeschooling, Chapter 3 from Teach Your Own, is available to read for free here. Home. What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power. A key to understanding why School is what it is lies in recognizing a systematic tendency to deform ideas in specific ways in order to make them fit into a pedagogical framework. One of these deformations is described here as “disempowering ideas.” The insight leads to a new direction for innovation in education: re-empowering the disempowered ideas. Doing so is not easy: it needs a new epistemology with a focus on power as a property of ideas and a challenge to the School culture. On the positive side, the insight also leads to a new vision of what technology can offer education.
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