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Taking Children Seriously

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Isn’t school necessary for children to learn?

A child who is completely free to learn and whose learning is not being monitored and assessed is empowered. Their learning is for themselves, not because an authority figure asked them to memorise and regurgitate a set of facts or ideas.

Free to learn: the immorality of compulsory schools

Dead Poets Society is not taking children seriously

Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich: a book review

What if my child both hates school and likes being in school with all his friends?

Does Taking Children Seriously mean children always getting their own way?

Home education in Britain

(NOT) listening to children

Choosing to go to school or Iraq

Non-coercive schools?

Are schools inherently coercive?

Objectifying education sabotages learning

Supporting a child’s choice to go to school

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