When we want a different world, we will need a different education…
Last night I read An Unschooling Manifesto by Dave Pollard. It’s a very inspiration post and well worth reading. I don’t know enough about the unschooling movement to know if I should get behind it or not. But so much of what Dave says rings true to me. I particularly like this part:
Then in Grade 12, something remarkable happened: My school decided to
pilot a program called “independent study”, that allowed any student
maintaining at least an 80% average on term tests in any subject (that
was an achievement in those days, when a C — 60% — really was the
average grade given) to skip classes in that subject until/unless their
grades fell below that threshold. There was…