Re-educating the Inner Reluctant Life Learner by Suki Wessling 
A parent reaches the life learning state of mind reluctantly through a process of denial, realization, and self-re-education. 

Homeschooling as Redemption by Penny Tuggle
This family doesn’t live without school for primarily intellectual or isolationist reasons, but for the redemptive force that it can be.

From School, to Self-Education, to College, and Back by J. L. Kauffman
A twenty-year-old describes his educational journey, which included getting into college after self-education, then back to learning on his own.

Good Reasons to Skip College: What Could You Do with $20,000? by Blake Boles
How to get a self-directed college-level education from the author of Better Than College.   

We Need Experience More Than We Need Algebra by John Taylor Gatto
Schools are "experience-light," so here are some concrete suggestions for learning by experience; they're intended for adults, but kids can participate too.