What is Unschooling? / Niigata Unschooling Meetup Update
VIDEO IS HERE (DLive thumbnail not loading!): 
A lot of folks have been asking me about unschooling recently. "What is it?" "How is it different than homeschooling?" "Is there some standard way of doing 'unschooling'?" "Is unschooling even legal in Japan!?"
I want to address these questions and give a basic definition of unschooling, and the foundational ideas behind the "movement."
I'll also be giving an update on the unschooling meetup group I've started here in Niigata!
Join me in the DLive LIVE chat and feel free to submit your own questions comments, and thoughts!
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
My live stream is at DLive
As you said our kids can teach themselves better than anyone else could, I'm a huge John Holt fan, his insight is amazing. Really really agree with everything you talk about in this video, this divorcee from body, control, how we are constantly telling them that they can not learn by themselves, so dis-empowering. and yeah for Summerhill, they done a little 3 part series in the UK about summerhill, my eldest daughter loved it she has said that is the only school she would go too. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom with us x
So nice to know others know about Holt. That's great about your daughter. The whole time I was reading the book I kept thinking: "Damn! I wish I could have gone there!"
Thanks so much for the kind words.
Thank you for the books, man. I needed this.
Glad to hear it! You’ll dig them man.
If anyone else is interested: here's a copy of How Children Learn
https://archive.org/details/HowChildrenLearn
love this book x
@trucklife-family so many books on the subject and I've read a few - but most just didn't convince me or I couldn't agree with what they were preaching. Hopefully this is the final destination here :)
I would highly recommend it, for me it just made a lot of sense, you know when you read something and realize that you intuitively knew this you just needed reminding, I hope it resonates with you, enjoy x
@trucklife-family 👍 books that do this are the only ones I care about 😀 the weekend is finally here, perfect to start reading.
Excellent. Thank you.
First time I hear that term ... I'm going to unschooling ... it will be good to investigate about it to be up to date with that topic. I will be thankful for the teaching.