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This came across the desk today, and I had to laugh. We get this quite a bit. So many people just don’t know what to do or what to say to us on matters of learning and education–close friends, family members, and even some homeschoolers we know. It’s tough when you don’t fit the mold. [...]

Astra Taylor is a 31-year-old Canadian-American filmmaker well known for her films Zizek and Examined Life. She is a writer as well, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines. In 2006, Filmmaker Magazine listed her as one of 25 new filmmakers to watch. Astra was unschooled until she was 13, an experience she says [...]

Ivan Illich offers both a bleak view of contemporary institutionalized society and an inspiring vision of what could be in his 1970 treatise Deschooling Society. “Good radical stuff,” notes the Observer in its cover accolade. Indeed it is radical in the best and truest sense of the word as defined below: Radical. adj. Arising from [...]