Keeping the integrity, nurturing the spirit - Education Otherwise

I often catch up rather late in the day - have just watched the documentary,´We Don´t Go to School´on Teachers.tv

Of course I have known for a long time about the large community of Home Educators in the UK, the USA and elsewhere but this documentary is special because it captures so much of the spirit of this way of providing education for children.

It would be so easy to attach this community - middle-class, well educated, the children only have jolly nice peers to be with, etc but it throws in to relief the reality, even hellish reality, that the mainstream system creates for so many children.

There were so many touching moments but especially eloquent was the father-educator who spoke of the need to be fully present for children.

http://www.teachers.tv/video/22401

Much more information can be found here,

http://www.education-otherwise.org/

http://www.hse.org.uk/http://www.teachers.tv/video/21042/resources

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