Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Video and overview of unschooling in the Groom household. Two things to highlight:
- "There will be no curriculum. None. Period. To home school seems to me to defeat the purpose of the experiment, and for us allowing as much freedom as possible for all of us to share and learn is crucial," and
- "Unschooling for us need not be understood as some repudiation of the public trust, or public schools. Nor need it be understood in the stark, divisive terms of institutions need to be gutted... Fact is, on a daily basis we depend upon all kinds of public institutions to carry out this process: the local libraries (which are amazing), the University of Mary Washington (for both flexibility and my paycheck), as well as the innumerable people at innumerable institutions who share things with us all the time."
The face of public education changes; it doesn't go away. A future without public education is not the sort of future I'm working toward.

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