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Proposed Merger of Radical Unschooling into Unschooling

I was looking at the Radical Unschooling article. Not much there that isn't already here and it seems that Radical Unschooling could be easily handled under Unschooling. I support a Merger of the two articles and have put up proposed merger templates. Safiel (talk) 01:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. Unschooling is a marginal movement, the article shouldn't be diluted across multiple pages for different unschooling sects.Ethan Mitchell (talk) 21:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and merged the pages. Safiel (talk) 04:51, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Learning Styles Paragraph

Learning styles, in fact, do not exist and their existence certainly isn't indicated by any kind of "recent research". The idea of learning styles stems from a misinterpretation of the Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. For more information on this, I would check out this video: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.252.137 (talk) 13:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism section

The list item "Children who direct their own educations generally grow up to be leaders, not followers, and find it more difficult to take direction from others." implies that the creation of leaders is a bad thing. Humanity needs both leaders and followers to function, whereas traditional education leans towards training followers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hessiess (talk • contribs) 20:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It really shouldn't be included in criticism at all. It is not in the article originally cited, so at best this is original research. It also looks like a strawman form of an argument about socialization of children in unschooling environments, and as such is original research, POV, and misleading info. Simonus (talk) 04:08, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like the entire criticism section should be rewritten or deleted. The arguments are biased and one-sided at best. They do seem to point towards original research. --Tranquilpaths (talk) 17:29, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Essay-like and citations needed

The article tends to makes generalisations (including about unschoolers) so citations are needed, as well as a bit more qualification.Autarch (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]