Unschooling and Books: Oddments and Surprises
BOOKS TO BUY
 Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life by Pam Laricchia  Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home by Pam Laricchia  Moving a Puddle and other essays by Sandra Dodd Parenting a Free Child an Unschooled Life by Rue Kream |
"So you don't use books?"Books and Saxophones"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?
Joyce Fetteroll's annotated list with linkscurrent about four years ago; newer books are linked to the right here→
Early thoughts on that
tree of knowledge motifBook worship Consider this piece of art, whichisused to be the logo on my main Radical Unschooling 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 that spurious remark). If you have ideas about the problem of book worship and unschooling that you'd be willing to see on a webpage, send them to [email protected]
Sandra Dodd's booklist for 8/18/01 talk on Questioning (at the bottom of that page)
What you can do with your dictionary and encyclopedia... A radical thought.
Never tell a child "Go look it up." Parents, teachers, friends and countrymen, how would you like it?
This is the book that doesn't end
Yes it goes on and on my friend...
(click for a random page)
EnglishLanguage
