Deschooling Our LivesMatt Hern A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens children's natural love of learning, undercuts their self-esteem, and limits independent thought. |
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... wrote prolifically : plays , novels , novellas , treatises , and letters , including Anna Karenina , War and Peace , The Death of Ivan Illyich and Resurrection . His writings on education , nonviolence , anarchism , asceticism , and ...
... wrote prolifically : plays , novels , novellas , treatises , and letters , including Anna Karenina , War and Peace , The Death of Ivan Illyich and Resurrection . His writings on education , nonviolence , anarchism , asceticism , and ...
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... wrote a book called Instead of Education , and what I mean by this [ title ] is instead of this designed process which is carried on in specially constructed places under various kinds of bribe and threat . I don't know what single word ...
... wrote a book called Instead of Education , and what I mean by this [ title ] is instead of this designed process which is carried on in specially constructed places under various kinds of bribe and threat . I don't know what single word ...
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... wrote : “ Although at the beginning I was distressed because I thought my home education was getting in the way of my success at school , I soon learned that I actually had many advantages over my peers . Because I was used to a ...
... wrote : “ Although at the beginning I was distressed because I thought my home education was getting in the way of my success at school , I soon learned that I actually had many advantages over my peers . Because I was used to a ...
Contents
Matt Hern | 1 |
Designed to Destroy Individual Thought? | 39 |
Geraldine LynPiluso Gus LynPiluso and Duncan Clarke | 48 |
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