Unschooled: The World to Come. School was an experiment. Meet the control group

Home educators are hard to categorise, covering the spectrum from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to fundamentalist Christians. But they all share one belief: schools are failing.

History shows that school, not home education, is the fad. Schools perpetuate inequality, power-based hierarchy, and uncritical obedience. And despite all efforts to the contrary, we can still predict the success of a child on their first day of school.

But there is another way of educating, where children outperform their schooled peers by all measures; a way that lets children achieve comparably with each other despite their background. Compelling studies show that home educated students outshine school students regardless of income, race, gender or class.

This book draws upon anthropology, biology, psychology, history and technology. It examines social class, the role of women in the home, the question of socialisation, and future automation. Drawing parallels with online movements, hacker culture, indigenous peoples and our ancient ancestors, it shows how unschooling can give us back our sense of purpose, our independence, and our potential.

Unschooling rebuilds the very foundations of the way we learn, the way we live, and the future of our world.

Including:

• unschooling and democracy
• competition versus cooperation
• the question of socialisation
• unschooling and social class
• indigenous teaching methods
• land, language, and identity
• unschooling and feminism
• tech, gaming, and the online world
• the future of unschooling

This book reveals depths to unschooling you have never considered, and demonstrates a way to mend our world from the ground up. Unschooling is The World to Come.