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School is oldschool. While get from A to B in Ubers instead of horses, classrooms look hardly any different in the last 100 years.

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    Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant
    by Peter Gray

    The best book, focused on research and Sudbury School

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    Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natu
    by Ben Hewitt

    Kids who grow up Unschooled in Vermont. Spoiler: they learn how to read without every being taught!

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    Educated: A Memoir (Random House Large Print)
    by Tara Westover

    How NOT to unschool your kid.

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    Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Logan Family Saga)
    by Mildred D. Taylor

    Unfair aspects of education

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    Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)
    by Lenore Skenazy

    Mom let's 13 year old kid take the metro by himself. Media goes berserk. Kid is fine.

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