The Impending Collapse of The School System as We Know it
I have worked as a teacher for over 15 years, working with both with children and adults, in private as well as in public schools. As an...
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Wild Motherhood
Why I Will Not Create an EMOTIONAL Bond with my Child – and What I’m Doing Instead. 128
From the moment my daughter was born, I knew that I would be walking a process of letting her go. I knew that she is, as the poet Kahlil...
Redefining Education – New Live Show on YouTube with Joao Jesus and Anna Brix Thomsen
Joao Jesus from Life Educators and Anna Brix Thomsen from A Teacher’s Journey to Life are the hosts of a new series of live conversations...
If Children Could Vote. 120.
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education...
Deschooling Humanity to Save the World. 119
“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this...
Playing the Long Game in your Child’s Upbringing. 118
As adults, and as parents in particular, we tend to focus on ‘short-term results’ when it comes to our kids. But what is seldom...
What Keeps Us from Changing the World? 117
The world as we know it is at a crossroads, a crossroads where the old is colliding with the new, where past generations feebly cling...
How do you raise a child? 116
How do you raise a child? My answer: you don’t. Have a look at how a child learns to crawl, stand and walk. The child does that on its...
How Sudbury Schools Challenges Traditional Perspectives on Children and Childhood. 114
“If you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them...
Stifling THAT child, Stifling the Whole World. 113
As teachers, parents and adults in general we have become accustomed to categorizing the people we meet into neat little boxes of...
The Miseducation of Your Humanity. 110
Education is a process that each new generation goes through, to learn about the ways of the world so as to effectively integrate into...
The Good News and the Bad News of Why Learning Cannot be Forced. 109.
You cannot force someone to learn. You can threaten them, you can punish them, you can force them to sit still and listen (or pretend to...
Q and A With John Taylor Gatto
I’ve written several blog-posts inspired by Gatto’s work. You can read one of them here. Recently I asked John Taylor Gatto a question on...
For the Love of Learning – Voices of the Alternative Education Movement
#unschoolingtheschoolsystem #alternativeeducationcommunity #unschooling #annabrixthomsen #consciousconsumernetwork #guerrillateacher...
Transformational Teaching Tools: Learning Through Gaming. 105
“After school, kids are devouring new information, concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not, they’re doing it controller in...
Unschooling The School System. 103
“A child does not have to be motivated to learn; in fact, learning cannot be stopped. A child will focus on the world around him and long...
Hacking The School System from Within. 102
“We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if...
Radical Unschooling: Education Outside The Box. 101
“Rules in the absence of principle are often found to be irrelevant by children. Principles lived fully make rules unnecessary.” —Karen...
Domesticating the Natural Child. 98
From the moment a child is born, it is expected to assimilate to the culture and society surrounding it, to make its norms and traditions...
The Future of Education and the School of Life. 96
In this post we are therefore going to do a different thought experiment. We are going to imagine what it would be like to go to school...
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