title: Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education
author: John R. Holt
description: A new edition of the home education classic. First published in 1981, <i>Teach Your Own</i> has helped thousands of people from all over the world to start homeschooling. This edition omits just three chapters which dealt with homeschooling laws in North America; now that homeschooling is legal throughout Canada and the US this information is outdated. However, the timeless insights into how children learn that Holt writes, and his perspective on homeschooling as being completely different from just school at home, make this book more timely, useful, and important than ever.
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  Until a few years ago I never imagined myself pursuing a career as an
  educator. While my father taught high school for a few years, and several
  other relatives have also taught in public schools, I disliked both
  compulsory public education and employment. So for many years I made
  my way as a freelance intellectual—a writer, artist, and musician.
  Nearly three years ago a friend, Michael McAvoy, offered me the
  opportunity to help design a program at a private alternative college,
  and now I find myself happily employed and happily teaching. In some
  respects, I wasn’t adequately prepared for the job, never having taken a
  teacher training course. But I’ve been blessed with competent,
  committed colleagues and with students who come to the program ready
  and wanting to learn. As teaching jobs go, this must be heaven.
  I’m still just starting to figure ou