A new edition of the home education classic. First published in 1981, Teach Your Own has helped thousands of people from all over the world to start homeschooling. This edition omits just three chapters which dealt with homeschooling laws in North America; now that homeschooling is legal throughout Canada and the US this information is outdated. However, the timeless insights into how children learn that Holt writes, and his perspective on homeschooling as being completely different from just school at home, make this book more timely, useful, and important than ever.

Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education

Education & Teaching

Holt,John

Schools & Teaching

Holt Associates

John Holt looks at the role that schooling in society plays in education.

Freedom and Beyond

Holt, John Caldwell

If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn; that our lives and our possibilities are not determined and fixed by what happened to us when we were little, or by what experts say we can or cannot do.”Best known for his brilliant insight into the way children learn, John Holt was also an intrepid explorer of adult learning. At the age of forty, with no particular musical background, he took up the cello. His touching and hilarious account of his passionate second career demolished the myth that one must start an instrument (or a sport, or a language) in early childhood, and will inspire any reader who dreams of taking up a new skill.

Never too late: My musical life story

Escape from Childhood

The case for treating children like real people, not pets and slaves, and for making available to them all the adult rights and responsibilities as outlined in the US Bill of Rights. This book will challenge not only your ideas about what constitutes "childhood" in today's society, but your ideas about society as a whole.

Holt, John C.

We have been told over and over that our present educational system, with its enormous budgets, teachers' strikes, and institutional violence, does not work. In fact, Holt shows that compulsory schooling is mong the most authoritarian and destructive inventions of man. Given this pessimistic view, though, Holt provides sympathetic advice and practical tactics for change throughout this book, including a controversial plan for an underground railroad to get your kids away from the authorities if you are serious about taking them out of the school system.

Instead of Education

What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want to do rather than what others think they ought to do? What happens when they have the time and the opportunity to explore the world in their own ways? Nancy Wallace's first book, Better Than School, was the story of how the Wallaces fought for and won the right to teach their children, Vita and Ishmael. Now, in Child's Work, Nancy looks at what happened in the years that followed; how Vita and Ishmael explored and became skilled at music, mathematics, art, and writing, and how Nancy learned to trust their idiosyncratic ways of learning and to respond seriously and helpfully to the choices they made. Child's Work is about how children make knowledge and understadning out of what is available around them, and as such it is an important book for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in learning from and about children.

Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously

Wallace, Nancy

John Holt promoted the homeschooling movement (which he originally called "unschooling") when he published the first issue of GWS in August 1977. Here, for the first time under once cover, are the first twelve issues of GWS, fully indexed and organized to help you browse or research its vast archive of ideas about how adults and children can learn together in their homes and communities. These first issues are particularly important because they contain much writing by Holt (he edited and contributed to every issue in this volume) about the how and why of unschooling that is not published anywhere else, as well as hundreds of firsthand accounts by unschooling's earliest practitioners that resonate with even more meaning today. 
 Learning Music News From CA And N.J. A Baby Capable Children Abe's Baby M and the Stove A Girl Skating Choral Reading Let's Read Gnomes Cousteau Society The Flyer 
 Issue No. 4 Radcliffe Statement Batting Practice To the ACLU Testing in the Schools From Florida Beating the System From L To a Dean From a Teacher Motive On Saying "No" A Single Parent A Reply Addition Ann Replies Rub-On Letters Teachers' "Skills" Calculators Politics Of Schooling An Important Decision A Poster Newsstand Sales Secrecy 
 Issue No. 5 A Learning Exchanger The Child Finders What They're Selling Fan Letter Time of Our Own From Oregon Nobody Sees Backwards Teacher Story Reading Readiness On Class Bias No Comment From a Mother Access to D.C. From Julia To a Reader From a Father A Reply The Therapeutic State A Speech Defect Research Skinner's Gun School Story A Legal Strategy The J-Bomb In a Boat Children of Film News Item 
 Issue No. 6 Equivalent Einstein Said From A Parent The Child Takers Good News From Vt. Doctor No Comment The World at Two A Family Game Life in School Her Own Money An Adventure Greenleaf Teaching Without School A City as Teacher News Item Facts and Theories Jobs, Careers, Work Finding True Work A Slow Start Remedial From Art Harris No Comment Reading Problems On Reading Thirty Hours Multiplication, Etc. Abstractions Teaching Useful Resources Why School? Good Reasons And Real Ones School Story Books Av. Here Good News 
 Issue No. 7 Help Needed Ruling From Iowa A Landmark Case Legal Strategies Fractions The Social Life No Comment Good News From Mo. School Story Sensible Phonics Teaching More On "No" Starting a School Parents' Rights The World at Two (Cont.) Scientists A Self-Teacher N.Y. Law Politics Of Knowledge An "Ignorant" Man Finding Out Credentials On Learning Useful Book Textbooks Tree Planters A Record 
 Issue No. 8 New Records A Good Invention From Ky. Unschoolers A Needed Law Sherlock's Triumph Electricity On "Infinity" From Newark A Shelter School On "Religious Belief" From Quebec Learning a Language On Understanding Seatwork Government Property The Schools Confess Smoking Growing With Trees Reply The Work Ethic Children and Play Sports A Homemade Fable Pig In The Bed Typing A Case Lost What Can We Learn? A Case Won The Ruling Legal Procedures Ask Your Library A Teacher Writes Learning Exchanges Volunteers Needed New Books On Our List Old Favorite 
 Issue No. 9 Coming Lectures Good News Reminder A Discovery Child Artist Scientists Requiem Smokescreen Einstein's Questions "Testing" Adults On An Island Reading Game Money GWS Local Chapters Truth Leaks Out Helpers Why Schools Began A Wonderful Book Those Voices Word Game Grammar Worms Home-Builder Schools College at Home Schools and Jobs Friendly Prof. A Useful School Summer Work The Crowded Court On Evaluation A Place for Doing Things Learning Disabilities To an Editor The Law Summed Up Texas Law Judge Greaney's Ruling Let's Use It School Or Club? Home School Guides Math By Discovery Tidbit From Manas A Private Reader S. R. C. In Paperback Many Thanks 
 Issue No. 10 Coming Lectures Change In Group Subs News From N.H. And Providence, R.I. In The Woods Calvert News Growing In Denmark And In Canada From A Mother A Book Of Free Things Books and Guns Child Publishers And Volunteers Photos They Don't Know "Good Teaching" Helping Learners From The Northwest A Book On Tests Why She Left A Father Writes Looking At Babies On N.H. Guidelines Bad Scene The Magic Gun Book Bargains New Books Here Maps Our Pentagon Paper 
 Issue No. 11 Coming Lectures From a Working Mother Success Story: Cape Cod Unschooling Survey An Unschooled Special Child Typing Help Available Writing a "Curriculum" The "Social Life" Success Story: Indiana The Violin at Two Auto Expert at Seven ...And a Computer Expert Calvert Ad A Good Idea Ruling in Va. Parents' School Growing in Canada Trying Out School Games Problem Solved New Age Articles Calvert Books Wanted New Books Available Here 
 Issue No. 12 A Holiday Greeting Coming Lectures Local Groups Good News From Wisc. Writing First Unschooled Children NJ Center Research Home Study School Helpful News From Ill. Letter to Schools Ky. Ruling News From Nc A Troubled Unschooler More on 'Equivalent' Minimizing School World of 'Weepuls' Cops 'N Robbers Reading Poetry Learning to Type Game Ideas Teaching Chemistry Science Resources Ski Adventure Capable Exploring Work News About Tests And Test Info Her Own Decision Boot Camp They Have a Choice Tenn. Report Unschooling in Holland Success Story: Ark. Legislative Approach New Books Available Here Index

Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement, Vol. 1: August 1977 - December 1979

And What About College? How homeschooling leads to admissions to the best colleges and universities, Cafi Cohen.The newest edition, completely revised, updated and expanded for 2000-2001. 48 new pages added - same price as before! 
*Every chapter substantially revised to refelct recent changes in college admissions policies, testing requirements, and scholarship availability *New chapter on college at home and on-line college *New appendix on study tips for the college bound *Updated resources and web sites *Chapter highlights to help you focus on the most important points

And What About College?: How Homeschooling Leads to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities

Cohen, Cafi

This new edition combines two popular books under one cover. How a homeschooling mother learned to trust her children-and herself-to learn in new ways. Covers elementary years through high school. These books are especially good for anyone wrestling with the question of "how much structure should there be in a homeschool?"

I Learn Better by Teaching Myself and Still Teaching Ourselves: And, Still Teaching Ourselves

Leistico, Agnes

Lists educational resources in literature, writing, mathematics, history, geography, science, foreign languages, life skills, and critical thinking

Good Stuff: Learning Tools for All Ages

Rupp, Rebecca

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