Conferences We Love
Talking on the internet with other unschoolers and likeminded people is good. Talking on the phone is even better. But nothing beats seeing unschoolers in person. And while getting unschoolers together sometimes can be like herding cats,...
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Bookshelf: In Pursuit of Elegance
Recent books that unschoolers recommend, including In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big...
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Unschooler.com Seeks Associate Editor
We're looking for an associate editor for The Unschooler Experiment, someone who strongly identifies with unschooling, likes hanging out with adult unschoolers and wants to keep their finger in the unschooling world while also doing their thing. Currently we produce a web magazine,...
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Video: Why Ideas Are Dangerous
Today we talk with grown unschooler Quinn Eaker, who discusses how ideas and mental frameworks keep us from living in the moment, being happy and reaching our full potential. Interview by Peter Kowalke. The video was recorded at the 2011 Rethinking Everything Conference in Dallas,...
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Grown Unschooler Mental Health Study Seeks Participants
A study on the mental health of grown homeschoolers is being conducted by grown unschooler Roya Sorooshian, who is doing her master's thesis on homeschoolers and mental health. Roya's looking for participants for the study, "An Exploratory Study on Mental Health and Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy...
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The Death of College is Greatly Exaggerated
New York Magazine wrote a pretty talked-about piece earlier this year about how fashionable college alternatives are this year. And boy have we seen that! And boy do we LIKE that....
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Growing Up as a Jewish Unschooler
Kate Fridkis, a prolific grown unschooler who writes for us and as a columnist Home Education Magazine, recently wrote a piece about growing up as a Jewish unschooler. Kate writes:
Homeschoolers are often broken down into two basic groups: Christian and secular. But...the reasons my... READ MORE »
A House in NC for Grown Unschoolers!
A rented house, in a cool part of town, where grown unschoolers come together to live and work with each other. Wait, didn't I come up with this idea? Of course I did--and so did you, probably. The grown unschooler house idea is one most...
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Ten grown homeschoolers candidly explore the lasting influence of home education.
