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Jon's Unschooling Page
| This page is divided into four parts: | |
| Great Quote | A great quote from Carl Sagan |
| Essays | Unschooling essays |
| Web Pages | Unschooling web pages |
| Mailing Lists | Unschooling mailing lists |
| Great Quote | top |
| A great quote from Carl Sagan | |
Britain has produced a range of remarkably gifted multidisciplinary
scientists and scholars who are sometimes described as polymaths. The group
included, in recent times, Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead, J. B. S.
Haldane, J. D. Bernal, and Jacob Bronowski. Russell commented that the
development of such gifted individuals required a childhood period in which
there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child
could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or
bizzare. Because of the strong pressures for social conformity both by the
government and by peer groups in the United States -- and even more so in
the Soviet Union, Japan, and the People's Republic of China -- I think that
such countries are producing proportionately fewer polymaths ....
Particularly today, when so many difficult and complex problems face the human species, the development of broad and powerful thinking is desperately needed. There should be a way...to encourage, in a humane and caring context, the intellectual development of especially promising youngsters. Instead we find, in the instructional and examination systems of most of these countries, an almost reptilian ritualization of the educational process ....
- Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (Ballantine, 1977)
| Essays | top |
| Unschooling essays | |
The essays that were on this page are now all on my essays page - be sure to check the unschooling essays part of the page.
| Web Pages | top |
| Unschooling web pages | |
Natural Learning Page
By Amy Bell.
The Family Unschoolers Network
"provides resources and support to all
homeschoolers regardless of educational approach or religious belief."
Libertarian Unschooling Page
unschooling.com
An unschooling Web site run by Home Education Magazine.
| Mailing Lists | top |
| Unschooling mailing lists | |
Mailing lists page
I have information about the Unschooling Mailing List,
and the Radical Unschoolers Mailing List on my
mailing lists page.
Yahoo Groups
Yahoo Groups (formerly eGroups/ONEList) is an ad-supported
service that's made it very easy to create mailing lists. As a result, mailing
lists come and go more quickly than I can keep track off. It's quite likely that
Yahoo has
unschooling lists that I don't list here.