Pat Farenga's Blog
What Is Deschooling About?
Before the words homeschooling and unschooling existed, the word “deschooling” filled their space. What is that all about?
When School Makes Freedom Just a Motivational Device
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis wrote in Schooling in Capitalist America in 1976, ‘“In less than a decade, liberal preeminence in the field of educational theory and policy has been shattered. . . . Today, much of the free school rhetoric has been absorbed into the mainstream of educational thinking as a new wrinkle on how to get kids to work harder.”
