Other HoltGWS News!

June 21, 2010: Sweden bans homeschooling. July 18, 2010 article notes: Sweden claims homeschooling unnecessary since the state provides "comprehensive and objective" education.

Rare footage of John Holt addressing homeschoolers in 1983, Spokane WA.

Germany banned homeschooling. Support efforts to make it legal again.

Pat Farenga discussing unschooling on Good Morning America.

Pat Farenga debating unschooling on Fox TV

Unschooling article in The Baltimore Sun

The connection between the military and the homeschooling community: An Open Letter to the Homeschool Community.

In Memory of Nancy Wallace

TEACH YOUR OWN: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

"If you haven't read this book seize the opportunity. If you have read it, it's time to read it again and renew your hope as you travel the homeschooling path." —Home Education Magazine

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Welcome,

John Holt invented the word unschooling in 1977 when he printed it in the early issues of Growing Without Schooling magazine. I hope you will find this site useful for learning how John Holt went from being a celebrated classroom teacher to becoming the founder of unschooling and one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement.

I continue working with unschooling and homeschooling primarily through my website. I maintain this site to keep John Holt's own ideas and words available to the general public so you can learn directly from him what unschooling means and how he envisioned it being implemented.

Pat Farenga

President, Holt Associates