On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Heather Madrone <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's not new at all. Victorian educational theorists talked about the > superiority of interest-initiated and delight-driven learning. The free > schools have been using this model for over 50 years, and my mother (a > psychologist) has remarked that she wishes there had been a local free school > when my siblings and I were growing up. > > The unschooling theorist John Holt popularized this idea in the homeschooling > community in the 70s. Most of the homeschoolers I know use unschooling when > it works. > > For most children in most areas, interest-initiated or delight-driven > learning works extremely well. Great post. Thanks, Heather. I had the intuitive sense that this couldn't be as new a method as the article implied, but no data to back that up. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
