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A leading practictioner's new research on the unsettling effect of home education

What about the parents?

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Feature by Leslie Barson and Milan Rai

When my son was coming up to school age, a friend introduced me to John Holt's book Teach Your Own, which I liked very much. I wouldn't have had the courage to home educate if it wasn't for the fact that my son also taught himself to read without help from me. (I'd started teaching him, and he said: Eugh

Leslie Barson is the founder and coordinator of The Otherwise Club, a home education group in north–west London (which recently marked its 15th birthday). She submitted her PhD thesis days after this interview. Her son gained a First in Philosophy at King's College, London and her daughter is at art school.