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Home education/homeschooling

“In advocating educational freedom, aren’t you forcing people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?”

Home education in Britain

“How will credential-less children survive?”

Coercing children to play an instrument

Children learning science without doing experiments

Instruction does not address the immediate moment-by-moment concerns and questions of the learner

Beware the homeschooling mentality

Answering a child’s question pedagogically, with a question, such as “What do you think?” or “How might we find out the answer?”

Are your children free to follow their own interests?

Subtly coercive home education vs free, curiosity-driven learning

The education game

Don’t tell me I can’t: An ambitious homeschooler’s journey, by Cole Summers: a book review

Never stop reading to your children

Doing nothing academically?

Isn’t school necessary for children to learn?

Television vs. workbooks

‍What does the UK do about homeschoolers not educating their kids?

Treat information about local education authorities with caution

Home education law—Phillips v Brown

How do you get children excited about maths?

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