#76 Life and learning alongside John Holt, with Pat Farenga in Massachusetts, US

INTRO

I'm chatting in this episode with Pat Farenga from Massachusetts. Pat is the father of three now adult unschooled daughters, and he worked with the late John Holt—the New York Educator who coined the term unschooling and wrote several books about learning. Pat worked with him on his magazine Growing Without Schooling and continued the magazine for many years after John Holt passed. We chat about his experiences with John Holt, how unschooling looked back in the '70s and '80s and how things have and haven’t changed in the last 50 years.

Connect with Pat at https://www.johnholtgws.com/who-was-john-holt

Pat mentions the following educators and authors in this episode:
John Holt, author of How Children Fail, How Children Learn, Learning All The Time, Teach Your Own, Instead of Education
Ivan Illich, author of Deschooling Society
John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down, Weapons of Mass Instruction
Sugata Mitra, TedX talk School in the Cloud

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