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Life Learning MagazineThe following is a small selection of the many inspirational essays about unschooling, homeschooling, self-directed learning, and life learning that have appeared in Life Learning Magazine since it began in 2002. To read all of our content, please subscribe and enjoy all of our articles...including back issues, current, and upcoming editions.

 

The Drive to Discover
by Laura Grace Weldon
A Provisional Curriculum for When Walking is Taught at School
by Dave Butler
From Dissection to Enjoyment: Unlearning Literary Analysis
by Suzanne Malakoff
A Life of Learning: Empowering, Trusting, Unschooling
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschoolers Prosper in the Real World
by Gaye Chicoine
Unschooling and 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
The Curriculum of Play
by John Taylor Gatto
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: What An Unschooling Family Learned From a Test
by Suzanne Malakoff
Curriculum Schmiculum
by Ann Leadbetter
The Sky is Blue Except When It's Not: The Essential Knowledge Debate
by Laura Schuerwegen
Kate & Molly Go To College (After Unschooling)
by Ann Leadbetter
Knowledge is Power: An Unschooling Pet Peeve
by Nathanael Schildbach
Talking About Life Learning - with Editor Wendy Priesnitz
by Sandra Rakovac
Unschooling Helps Children Achieve Full Personhood
by Tammy Takahashi
Unschooling in a Multigenerational Home
by Christina Nichols
What Do Unschoolers Do All Day? Nine Ways to Facilitate Your Child's Learning
By Hope Nilges
Whose Goal is it Anyway?
by Pam Laricchia
Unschooling is About Principles Not Rules
by Robyn Coburn
A Week in the Life of an Unschooled Teen
by Jim Strickland
Dabbling, Digging Deep and Quitting
by Lyla Wolfenstein
Unschooling Is Audacious Learning
by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
The Art of Inspiration: The Role Parents Play in Unschooling
By Wendy Priesnitz
When Unschooling Feels Like Unparenting
by Theresa Shea
Reading With Grace: How An Unschooled Child Learns to Read
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
Low Marks For Good Grades
by Tammy Takahashi
Power to Control
by Wendy Priesnitz
Learning Through Play
by Beverley Paine
Freedom or Control: Who Decides?
by Wendy Priesnitz
Shakespeare Through an Unschooling Lens
by Karen Ridd
Unschooling Makes Them Ready for a Changing World
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschooled Children and Power
by Lael Whitehead
Eye-Opener: Changing Perspective on the Importance of Reading
by Pauline Mary Curley
Living by Consent: Unschooling and 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: A CSA Perspective on Unschooling
by Carrie Pomeroy
Learning Naturally at Home the Permaculture Way
by Beverley Paine
An Unschooling  Mom Makes 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
Stickers
by David H. Albert
The Tenth Intelligence
by David H. Albert
Unschooling Science
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschooling is Education Inspired by Nature
by Wendy Priesnitz
How Unschoolers Can Get Over Math
by Anna Hoffstrom
Unschooling and the Principle of Productive Failure
by Wendy Priesnitz
Liberate Your Education: Unschooling Isn't One-Size-Fits-All
by Susan Wight
Why Aaron Mattered
by Lauren Wales
   
Grown Without Schooling: profiles of adult unschoolers by Peter Kowalke
- Ilana Ofgang, jazz musician, age 24

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

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The term life learning refers to a form of homeschooling that trusts children and avoids the trappings of school. It is sometimes called unschooling, radical unschooling, or natural learning. Life learning children live and learn naturally, with the support of their families, based on their own interests and their own timetables, and without curriculum, tests, or grades. Go here, here and here for a more comprehensive explanation.

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