Unschooling

Education that unleashes the creative spirit.

By Jeremiah Vandermeer
Published: December 16, 2005
From The Tyee (Online)


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Bashu Naimi-Roy is a smart kid.

"In college, the students are like customers," he says matter-of-factly, "but in high school, they're more like…"

He pauses for just long enough for his mother, Anita Roy, to finish his sentence.

"Prisoners," she says and laughs. "I just had to throw that in. It's true though."

At age 12, Bashu was the youngest student ever to enroll at Malaspina University-College. He's 13 now and still studying there.