Right to Reply

A Response to Graham Badman‟s Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England and reaction to the CSF Select Committee hearing on Monday 12 October 2009

Open PDF File here.

Badman Review on Home Education

Found it on scribd, here...

Books to read online

How Children Fail John Holt

Instead of Education - John Holt

Teach Your Own - John Holt

The Underachieving School - John Holt

Never Too Late - John Holt

What do I do Monday? - John Holt

Sharing Treasures - John Holt

Danger: School! IDAC Document

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto

The Exhausted School - John Taylor Gatto

Underground History of American Education John Taylor Gatto

Compulsory Miseducation Paul Goodman

Teaching as a Subvertive Activity - Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner

Against Education: For the Abolition of School

School, Society & The Future

Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - A S Neill

Free from School by Rahul Alvares

School is Dead Everett Reimer

Toward the Destruction of Schooling Jan D Matthews

How To Get An Education At Home Pat Farenga

None Dare Call It Education (How Schools Dumb Us Down) (1999) Stormer

The Animal School

Black and Other UK Home Educators' Booklet

Christian Homeschooling Minus the Stress by Sue Rumsley


Unschooling Media - Vanessa Bertozzi

The Montessori Method - Maria Montessory

The Education of the Child - Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Discussions with Teachers - Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner Books

Education and the Significance of Life - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beginnings of learning - J. Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti on Education Jiddu Krishnamurti

Letters to the Schools Volume 1 Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Ahead Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education by Swami Vivekananda

What's Wrong With The World - G.K.Chesterton

Democracy and Education - John Dewey

Fundamental Education V.M. Samael Aun Weor

The History of Education Ellwood P. Cubberley

Education for Destruction -Bessie R Burchett

Danger: School!

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Fiction & Literature Education children's for

Children Learning at Home

A book by Julie Webb - Read it here.

Rudolf Steiner & Waldorf Education

Read Steiner's books on education (PDF format) or listen to his lectures (just click on the book covers).


[from: Waldorf Homeschoolers]

Summerhill - A S Neill

Some quotes from the story of the 1st free school in the world:

"Most of the schoolwork that adolescents do is simply a waste of time, of energy, of patience. It robs youth of its right to play and play and play; it puts old heads on young shoulders."

"The molded, conditioned, disciplined, repressed child, the unfree child, lives in every corner of the world. He lives in our town just across the street. He sits at a dull desk in a dull school and later, he sits at a duller desk in an office or on a factory bench. He is docile, prone to obey authority, fearful of criticism, and almost fanatical in his desire to be normal, conventional, and correct. He accepts what he has been taught almost without question; and he hands down all his complexes and fears and frustrations to his children."

"To give freedom is to allow the child to live his own life. Thus expressed, it seems simple. Only our disastrous habit of teaching and molding and lecturing and coercing renders us incapable of realizing the simplicity of true freedom."

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Maire Mullarney

Maire Mullarney, mother, home educator, nurse, founder member of the Green Party, journalist and author, has died. Marie Mullarney taught her 11 children at home. She didn't have any teaching experience when she started. One of her books was very influential in home education. What follows is from its introduction:

"If those inside cannot repair the system it is up to those outside to move. Anything school can do, you can do better is my contribution. After some eighteen quiet years of childwatching I had come to realize that school was a time-wasting and inefficient attempt to enable one generation to share knowledge with the next. It had not dawned on me that sharing knowledge was only a minor purpose of the system..."