Dare to Know

Danny at Home Schooling Dad makes what looks like a rhetorical point, but which is actually far more than that. "When you force by gun...

There are now at least four families who we know relatively well whose children, despite the fact that they are given the option of home edu...

Yet again, home educators have produced the goods and am lying awake glowingly proud to have known all of them and to have seen their handiw...

Most criticisms of home education miss the mark by a long shot. Questions about opportunities for socialisation can be readily answered. A...

People at Action for the Rights of Children have recently provided extremely satisfactory evidence of the ineffectiveness of truancy sweeps...

A tantalizing (for me) tip of a discussion occurred over in the Cocktail Lounge at The Denim Jumper . It may be hard to trace, so I should e...

It's difficult to avoid the thought that all this expensive research , despite the fact that it draws a fairly acceptable conclusion, sh...

From the Saturday Times, Nothing Can Stop a Pencil Sharpener becoming a Weapon , in which the views of the parents are sharply at odds with ...

We have heard of yet more success stories about autonomously educated HE kids, such as the case of a child who'd been so badly failed by...

It is the sure sign of a very good argument that it unfolds in temperate fashion and so it is with an article about Chomsky at Norm's B...

A section of peerless text from William Godwin , (1756- 1836), English moral and political philosopher, who, amongst other things, displayed...

And another thing I've come by rather late in the day, but also nonetheless feel the inclination to link to: Jeff's manifesto , apar...

Am probably the last blogging member of this new site to actually link to it, but I suspect, nonetheless, that I may be the first from the ...

...don't use Dh's sat-nav system when on HE trips. With the flexible attitude to space/time management that is an HE day, the eerie ...

Since the recent post about how well autonomously home educated children report doing when they return to school, we have subsequently heard...

At the risk of this blog turning into one long paean to Home Education, (sorry, can't help it, it just feels that way at the moment), I ...

Several previously autonomously home educated kids we know personally who have chosen to go to schools to do A levels and degrees at univers...

Yet another meeting today where the HE numbers were up with plenty of new faces. Parents include classical musicians, pub landlady, accoun...

From Future Pundit , news that avian flu H5N1 is currently very lethal to children. "The disease has been particularly deadly for child...

The expansion in the numbers of HEors is mostly very good news, primarily, of course for the children it involves, but also I'd guess, b...