Media and Press - 2021
I talk about John Holt's How Children Learn with the MindLove podcast this week. https://www.mindlove.com/podcast/how-children-learn
2. My speech to the Alliance for Self-Directed Education on Sept. 28, 2021, about my 40 years with the book Teach Your Own.
https://youtu.be/RDzxifYBgdk
3. In this special two-part discussion, Pat Farenga and I discuss Harvard University’s ongoing 7-week conference, the “Post-Pandemic Future of Homeschooling.” This free online conference brings together researchers and academics in the field of homeschooling, and Pat and I are here to share what they’re talking about, the arguments they’re making, and what we think of all this.
In this first episode we discuss weeks 1-4 of the conference: Should homeschooling laws change? Who is homeschooling today? Are homeschoolers prepared for life? And—are homeschoolers socially isolated?
We get into some spicy discussions regarding homeschooling regulation, Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s ideas for protecting vulnerable children, the nature and limits of academic research, and political factions within the homeschool movement. Look forward to part two coming out later this month!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5voafj8yPr0uun2l7RMEPk
https://www.blakeboles.com/podcast/
Look for: Patrick Farenga on Self-Directed Learning
4. To mark the eighteenth year since his death, I am honored to be part of a collective reading of "The Futility of Schooling" by Ivan Illich. This controversial text, first published as a magazine article in the Saturday Review, lays the groundwork for Illich's famous book, Deschooling Society. The message is still relevant, especially for Latin America."My discussion of the futility of schooling in the Third World, may help to demonstrate the general futility of world-wide educational institutions.”—Illich
https://youtu.be/QsqYySlIk1w
