Kerry McDonald on Unschooling and Homeschooling

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Kerry McDonald on Unschooling and Homeschooling

The Aaron Olson Podcast

36 minutes 10 seconds

3 years ago

Kerry McDonald on Unschooling and Homeschooling

I talk with Kerry McDonald about her book, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Kerry McDonald https://fee.org/kerry

00:04:30 Public school vs Homeschool

00:06:20 Harvard

00:10:50 FEE https://fee.org/

00:11:30 Cato https://www.cato.org/

00:12:10 Educational Freedom in America

00:14:15 Compulsory schooling laws

00:16:10 Unschooling

00:19:00 Adult learning vs child learning

00:20:40 Creativity, curiosity, entrepreneurship

00:23:30 Unschooling at Kerry's home

00:25:18 Creating vs consuming

00:27:40 Gender differences

00:29:14 Kids are expected to read earlier and earlier

00:30:27 Individuality in education

00:31:15 Thomas Edison

00:32:35 Study on adults who were unschooled

00:33:25 Left vs Right in homeschooling