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What is Unschooling about?

"Are schools social levelers or do they reinforce the class pyramid by tracking and sorting children from a young age?" asks Astra Taylor in this single from n+1 (Issue 13). In her answer, Taylor blends memoir and educational history in a broad-reaching examination of unusual alternatives to mainstream education in the United States. Amazon.com Review Say what you will about government-issue education, there are alternatives. And not just for the wealthy, insists Astra Taylor, who split her formative years between "unschooling" at home and traditional public schools. At home, curiosity ruled. She and her siblings enjoyed free reign of the mind, encouraged by their parents to pursue whatever they chose, whenever they chose. No 50-minute sessions, no mandated math, no social minefields... In public school, she endured what she describes as "the management of boredom, the administration of mental fatigue." These contrasting experiences might lead a lesser writer to lambaste the nation's schools as little more than factories for the manufacturing of passive patriots, but Taylor is, frankly, better educated than that, and Unschooling represents a much more meaningful undertaking. S

Author

Astra Taylor

Publisher

n+1 Foundation, Inc.

Published

2012

Language

EN

Rating

3.62 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14