Suggested Reading and Helpful Links:


How Children Learn by John Holt

How Children Fail by John Holt

Teach Your Own by John Holt

The Unprocessed Child by Valerie Fitzenreiter

The Well Adjusted Child (The Social Benefits of Homeschooling) by Rachel Gathercole (MC: this is an awesome book that would be great to hand to any of the people who say "what about socialization?" in that worried tone....)

The Unschooling Unhandbook by Mary Griffith

Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee

The Unschooling Unmanual by various authors published by naturalchild.org

Learning All the Time by John Holt

The Homeschooling Book of Answers : The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson

Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn

Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson

Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint (an account of Jane Jacobs, a woman who rejected traditional schooling and who exhibited true "intellegence", creativity and perserverance)



Links:

The Essay that started it all (for us):  http://www.unschooling.com/library/essays/sowhatdo.shtml


YouTube "TED" Video by Ken Robinson on Creativity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=related