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		<title>&#8220;not-so-great expectations&#8221; &#8212; a comedy of error</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/09/10/not-so-great-expectations-a-comedy-of-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came across the desk today, and I had to laugh. We get this quite a bit. So many people just don&#8217;t know what to do or what to say to us on matters of learning and education&#8211;close friends, family members, and even some homeschoolers we know. It&#8217;s tough when you don&#8217;t fit the mold. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>astra taylor on the unschooled life</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/01/04/astra-taylor-on-the-unschooled-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on reading deschooling society by ivan illich</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/28/on-reading-deschooling-society-by-ivan-illich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#8220;Good radical stuff,&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>south dakota legislators: the stupidest people on earth?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/03/01/south-dakota-legislators-the-stupidest-people-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I apologize for the argumentum ad hominem&#8211;what may seem like a logical misstep or at least an ethical lapse in the second part of the post title above, but come on! This came across the wire today. I&#8217;ve pasted it below, but you can find it&#8217;s original context at Think Progress. I couldn&#8217;t believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the fourth purpose</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/01/the-fourth-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto is scheduled to speak at this year&#8217;s InHome Conference. Gatto is a writer and speaker, an outspoken critic of compulsory education, a homeschooling advocate, and an award winning former New York public school teacher. He&#8217;s in the process of raising money to complete a documentary film entitled The Fourth Purpose. Just recently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ken robinson on how school kills creativity</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/08/12/ken-robinson-on-how-school-kills-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author, educator, and speaker Sir Ken Robinson writes and speaks about the dire need for creativity to be a crucial element of public education lest we face a future far bleaker than our present. The problem, though, as he articulates so well, is that public education is in the business of educating us out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>homeschooling: myth v. reality</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/02/17/homeschooling-myth-v-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this and simply could not resist&#8230; Click the image to enlarge it for better viewing.]]></description>
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		<title>reading learning all the time by john holt</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/10/27/reading-learning-all-the-time-by-john-holt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/7/2008 Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I&#8217;ll post when I&#8217;ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt&#8217;s from the editor&#8217;s foreword caught my eye. Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>have you been crippled by public schooling?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2008/10/15/have-you-been-crippled-by-public-schooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We continue our critical discussion of education versus schooling in my composition course. The latest conversation has centered around three texts: John Gatto&#8217;s &#8220;Against School&#8221; and &#8220;The Seven Lesson School Teacher,&#8221; and Alfie Kohn&#8217;s &#8220;What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?&#8221; Of the three, Gatto&#8217;s pieces are most provocative&#8211;or at least I thought they [...]]]></description>
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