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Life Learning Magazine The following is a small selection of the many inspirational essays that have appeared in Life Learning Magazine since it began in 2002. We are happy to share some of our content with website visitors but hope you will subscribe to our digital magazine and enjoy all of our articles...including back issues, current and upcoming editions.

From Dissection to Enjoyment: Unlearning Literary Analysis by Suzanne Malakoff	A Life of Learning: Empowering, Trusting, Unschooling by Wendy Priesnitz
Prospering in the Real World by Gaye Chicoine	The Flow of Self-Directed Learning by Amy Spang
Of Swimming & Schooling by Rachel Gathercole	I Was Unschooled by Michele Stille
The Educator's Dilemma by Dan Grego	Life Learning Culture & Community by Eva Swidler
Freedom or Control: Who Decides? by Wendy Priesnitz	The Therapy Fund by Nathanael Schildbach
Don't Worry About College by John Taylor Gatto	Learning and Living Without Schooling & Coercion by Jan Fortune Wood
The Hall of Mirrors by John Taylor Gatto	The Benefits of Boredom by Wendy Priesnitz
Kate & Molly Go To College by Ann Leadbetter	Vindication of Trust by Pauline Mary Curley
Talking About Life Learning - with Editor Wendy Priesnitz by Sandra Rakovac	Challenging Assumptions in Education by Wendy Priesnitz
Talking About Life Learning - with Fatim Walji by Sandra Rakovac	A Little Bit Great: Unschooling With Chronic Illness by Katie Frampton
Talking About Life Learning - with Mette Guillaume by Sandra Rakovac	Principles Not Rules by Robyn Coburn
Choices by Mette Guillaume	The Mother He Needs by Sarah E. Parent

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