This is a short video by Trevor Eissler, Montessori schooling advocate, on the benefits of Montessori schools. Topics include:
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation
Grades
Comparisons between Motessori and Public Schools
Maintaining a child’s spark of curiosity
The Montessori model is a wonderful, child-friendly approach to education that emphasizes independence, child-led educational freedom, and respect a child’s natural psychological development. You can find out more about Motenssori schools in your area at FindAMontessori.com.
School Sucks Project is a podcast, You Tube channel, and on-line community dedicated to redefining education. We promote home-education, critical thinking, peaceful parenting, personal growth and nonviolent communication strategies.
What education is: a lifelong process of seeking and integrating new knowledge, an intrinsically motivated journey that serves the needs of the individual learner
What education isn’t: compulsory, institutionalized schooling
Dayna Martin interviews unschooled teens, Devin Martin and Rileigh Forslund. The three discuss how some common issues are approached in the Radical Unschooling model. Topics include:
Do the teens help out with cleaning even though they have no assigned chores?
How did Dayna respond to Devin’s desire to get a piercing? Did he get it as an act of teenage rebellion?
Unschooler individuality and acceptance of others
Are there cliques in groups of unschoolers?
What do the lives of kids in school look like to Devin and Rileigh?
A cautionary tale for parents considering enrolling their children in public schools.
(From Wikipedia) The War on Kids is a 2009 documentary film about the American school system. The film takes a look at public school education in America and concludes that schools are not only failing to educate, but are increasingly authoritarian institutions more akin to prisons that are eroding the foundations of American democracy. Students are robbed of basic freedoms primarily due to irrational fears; they are searched, arbitrarily punished and force-fed dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. The educational mission of the public school system has been reduced from one of learning and preparation for adult citizenship to one of control and containment.
