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Carol Black
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Carol Black's personal blog at carolblack.org covers culture and philosophy. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “On the Wildness of Children”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carol Black's essay "On the Wildness of Children," which asks what education should look like if we start from what children are like, plus a reading list on deschooling society.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Long reads about learning, culture, unschooling, life, by Carol Black.
Most-linked posts?
- On the Wildness of Children2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-30
What Hacker News says?
As a museum educator turned classroom teacher, this resonates with me. Readings that may be relevant to those who find this Twitter thread intriguing: - "On the Wildness of Children," on what kind of educational experiences we might imagine for our children if we consider what children are like first: http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/ - "Deschooling Society" (on my reading list): https://archive.org…
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on “Surprising Things About School”Submitted On the Wildness of Children as a story · 137 points
HN discussionReading this reminded me a lot of one of my all-time favourite essays "On the Wildness of Children" by Carol Black - http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children It's definitely influenced how we raise our kids - boys in general really seem to need to be active, exploring, and heavily engaged in physical activity otherwise they turn that energy towards destructive activities.
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on “Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)”Submitted Three Cups of Fiction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPublic school kid here. From my experience, the writer is clearly coming from a place of elite Hollywood unreality: http://carolblack.org/about/ Most of the "wildness," or more to the point, "hatefulness" clearly came from the parents. The racism, the homophobia, the Disneyesque self-absorption, the intolerance for anything outside of the present iteration of pop culture and regional sport -- all seeded, fostered, a…
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on “On the Wildness of Children”Submitted Schooling the World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA wonderful related read that has stuck with me ever since I read it (and hope to apply when my 1yr old grows up a bit more): http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/
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on “Parents are exhausting their children. An eighth-grade boy explains how”