Our
conference event supports:
-
your freedom to set the course for your own life
- supporting you in creating a freedom-based life for your children
& teens
- gentle & profoundly respectful parenting
- unschooling & self design
- eliminating psychological roadblocks to self-empowerment
- real history & experiential learning
- entrepreneuring
- strategies for vibrant, alive wellness
- spiritual oneness & the law of attraction
- enlightened aging & empowered dying
Founded 17
years ago as the Rethinking Education conference and officially
morphing in 2009 to Rethinking Everything, we're setting bright
new standards for progressive families. From birth to death, we're
living life with maximum freedomon our own terms.
At the heart
of Rethinking Everything is the awareness that the most important
way we can effect positive, enlightened change in the world is
by entirely rethinking the nature of childhood and the environments
we create to support the THRIVING of children and their families.
RE supports
the belief that children are supremely and fundamentally capable
of absorbing and using knowledge from our complex world. There
is no need for arbitrary structure in parenting or education;
the use of coercion, rewards or other behavior modification techniques
as motivation are always counterproductive. With freedom, respect
and nurturing support, children have a powerful drive to self-direct
their own learning; the result being children who direct their
own education... indeed, their own futures.
Education,
and indeed all of life, viewed in this way, becomes a mutual endeavor,
a life-long process of questioning and discovery - a true exploration
of self, society and the larger world.
Proponents
are widespread and include John Taylor Gatto, A.S. Neill, Brent
Cameron, John Holt, Scott Noelle, Alice Miller, Ivan Illich, Dayna
Martin, Jan Fortune-Wood, Jan Hunt, Pam Leo, Daniel Greenberg,
Jonathan Kozol, and many others.
I can sum
up in five to seven words what I eventually learned as a teacher.
The seven-word version is: Learning is not the product of teaching.
The five-word version is: Teaching does not make learning. Organized
education operates on the assumption that children learn only
when and only what and only because we teach them. This is not
true. It is very close to one hundred percent false. John Holt
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