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Experience is something David Albert and Joyce Reed both have: experience parenting and homeschooling their own kids (seven in total and now grown), and experience talking about or working with other people’s kids. In addition to experience, they both love to tell stories. That combination is a very good thing for us, the readers of the essays in this book. I first had the pleasure of reading and editing their writings when they were published as installments of a column in my magazines Life Learning and Natural Life. What first attracted me to these essays was how much beginning homeschoolers can learn from these two whose families have been so long on the journey, and who share their wisdom so eagerly and articulately . . . In the end, what David and Joyce point out is that homeschooling (and all its variations and subsets) is not really a method of education – or, it is, but it’s also much more. There are no standardized step-by-step guidelines or rules for doing it the right way, because every child and every family is different. Homeschooling is a way of life, a way of looking at the world and at children. It is about self-direction, about learning from life and throughout life. It is about kids, families and communities regaining control over their days, their learning, their money, their resources and their ability to direct and manage themselves. And that’s what really matters.

Wendy Priesnitz

Ficha Técnica

David H. Albert and Joyce Reed
176 páginas (em inglês)
LifeMedia, 2010

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