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Life Learning MagazineThe 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
Fear of the TV Beast
by Julie Persons
The Educator's Dilemma
by Dan Grego
Trying it Out: Learning from a Mentor
by Wendy Priesnitz
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
Walking a Tightrope: Choosing Balance in a World of Opportunity
by J. Ann Lloyd and Erica Gotow
Breaking from the Herd
by John Taylor Gatto
Filling in the Dots
by Suzanne Malakoff
Kate & Molly Go To College
by Ann Leadbetter
Medicating Children for Being Children
by Wendy Priesnitz
Talking About Life Learning - with Editor Wendy Priesnitz
by Sandra Rakovac
Challenging Assumptions in Education
by Wendy Priesnitz
Black Homeschooling: Learning From the Mocha Moms
by Nathalie Zur Nedden
A Little Bit Great: Unschooling With Chronic Illness
by Katie Frampton
Whose Goal is it Anyway?
by Pam Laricchia
Principles Not Rules
by Robyn Coburn
Learning to Read Without Being Taught
by Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
Dabbling, Digging Deep and Quitting
by Lyla Wolfenstein
Taking Risks and Breaking Rules
by Wendy Priesnitz
Daring to Drop Out
by Monica Chen
When Unschooling Feels Like Unparenting
by Theresa Shea
Reading With Grace
by Becca Challman
Knowledge & the Cult of Experts
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschooled Teen Learns to Balance Learning
by Katherine Michalak
Life Learning Culture & Community
by Eva Swidler
To Learn My Own Way
by Laura Coldwell
Power to Control
by Wendy Priesnitz
Learning Through Play
by Beverley Paine
Profile of New Jersey Unschooling Pioneer Nancy Plent
by Pauline Mary Curley
The Right to Vote
by Deb Lewis
Ready for a Changing World
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling
by Sandra Dodd
Eye-Opener: Changing Perspective on the Importance of Reading
by Pauline Mary Curley
Living by Consent: The Life Learning Mystery Tour
by Jan Fortune-Wood
Zen and the Art of Unschooling Math
by Rachel Gathercole
Cooking With What's in the Bag
by Carrie Pomeroy
What We Learn From Life
by Wendy Priesnitz
Making Peace With War Birds
by Suzanne Malakoff
The Words We Use: Living as if School Doesn't Exist
by Wendy Priesnitz
What Really Matters: Parts is Parts
by David H. Albert & Joyce Reed
Education Inspired by Nature
by Wendy Priesnitz
The Tenth Intelligence
by David H. Albert
Learning Naturally at Home the Permaculture Way
by Beverley Paine
What Really Matters: The Curriculum of Beauty
by David H. Albert & Joyce Reed
   
   
Grown Without Schooling: profiles of adult unschoolers by Peter Kowalke
- Ilana Ofgang, jazz musician, age 24
- Patrick Meehan, video game entrepreneur, age 29

- Laura Brion, musician, urban agriculturalist, age 24
- Brian Walton, librarian, age 27
- Selina Hunt, industrial designer, age 26
- Sarabeth Matilsky, mother, age 26
- Zoe Blowen-Ledoux, translation business owner, age 26


   
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