This is the PowerPoint presentation that supported Pat Farenga's speech, Homeschooling and Unschooling, at the Alternatives to Compulsory Education Conference at Harvard University, April 27, 2013. This slideshow only makes sense if you watch the accompanying video of my talk. You can watch them in synchronization here: http://www.zentation.com/viewer/index.php?passcode=UbspGt5PAe You can also view my speech (but you can't see the slides) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ttTEM7Y3fw

1. Homeschooling/Unschooling
Presented by Patrick Farenga, www.johnholtgws.com

2. Damanhur:
Temples of Humankind

3. Damanhur
http://www.thetemples.org/en

4. The Door to the Temples

5. Damanhur: The Hall of Mirrors

6. Damanhur

7. John Holt

8. 0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
1977 1991 1995 2003 2012
# of Homeschoolers
Source: For estimates until 2007, the National Center
for Education Statistics. 2012 is Pat Farenga’s guess.
The Growth of Homeschooling in America

9. Dr. Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall"
experiments have shown that, in the
absence of supervision or formal teaching,
children can teach themselves and each
other, if they're motivated by curiosity and
peer interest.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_show
s_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_c
hild_driven_education.html