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Kerry McDonald | The Unschooling Movement & The Many Pitfalls Of Conventional Education

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Montessori Waldorf Schools Are a Great Alternative to Unschooling

Unschooling is really a much bolder and much more different situation maybe you could talk to us about that through a couple of stories about your own kids because I've heard you tell stories about how this has worked. Yeah I mean I think it's interesting so we have these alternative learning models that are very child-centered Montessori and Waldorf being two examples. In many Waldorf schools they don't even begin to teach reading until much later than children would learn to read in traditional schools. They do recognize that bell curve of reading confidence and do kind of push it more towards the center of the bell curve there So that's interesting and they're just they're beautiful educational philosophies

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