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Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education Paperback – February 1, 2011
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● Learn to be; learn to do; learn to know.
● Tests don't work. Get over it. Move on.
● What a person learns in a classroom is how to be a person in a classroom.
● Animals are better than books about animals.
● Internships, apprenticeships, and interesting jobs beat term papers, textbooks, and tests.
● The only sustainable answer to the global education challenge is a diversity of approaches.
This accessible book provides you with a path forward, whether you're a parent or teacher, a school administrator, or a national policy decision maker.
- Print length168 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGreenleaf Book Group
- Publication dateFebruary 1, 2011
- Dimensions5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-109781608321162
- ISBN-13978-1608321162
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- ASIN : 1608321169
- Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group (February 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 168 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781608321162
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608321162
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #83,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #42 in Education Reform & Policy
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About the author

Why can't schools teach leadership?
Or innovation?
The answer is sobering. Lectures, term papers, workbooks, and tests were never designed to help us grow beyond the classroom.
Clark Aldrich is the world's authority on content that improves thinking and actions in the real world.
Aldrich is the leading designer of educational simulations and Short Sims for professionals, and an award-winning industry analyst. A philosopher/practitioner, Aldrich has created and continues to evolve the first rigorous pedagogy around "learning to do" in educational media. He and his work have appeared widely including in The New York Times, CNN, and CBS.
Aldrich works with corporations, universities, the US military (where he held Top Secret clearance), non-profits, government organizations, and VCs to create new models of scalable lifelong education that deliver growth, while being less wasteful and more fair.
Aldrich, who received his degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University, balances hands-on, practical work with strategic engagements.
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-broad overview to open your mind and heart to new ideas
Even before I got to the parts about calculus being a waste of time, I was already annoyed I had spent money on such a useless book! There is absolutely no useful information in it. A waste of time unless you like reading things that just make you feel good about your decision to homeschool/unschool/whatever. I personally find such things a waste of my time. I feel good by doing things, not by reading someone else's opinion on what I happen to be doing. I'd rather be reading a novel, or even a calculus textbook! I was hoping for a book with constructive ideas, not a litany of public schooling criticisms and abstract ideas of what homeschooling should be about.
I did finish the book. It took me less than 2 hours to read the whole thing start to finish, and what a waste of 2 hours that was! I got not a single thing out of it that I didn't already know. Plus, as a bonus, I got to be annoyed by the author's assumption that my children are "average" and would be wasting their time learning higher maths and sciences. Not everyone can make money writing books full of useless drivel. Some of us like to actually have the brains and innate curiosity to learn how the world works at the atomic or subatomic level. My children are the future, and I don't mean the future burger flippers of the world!
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Thought provoking and inspiring to anyone considering unschooling, home education or even debating about the current education system consumed by the masses.



