Safran, Leslie

Safran, Leslie

Leslie Safran

1 February 2017Feature

It’s still legal in Britain to withdraw your children from school – for what purpose?

Learning: doing it all by themselves. Photo: Emily Johns

The great advantage of home education has been to open up different kinds of education. If we are to save what is groundbreaking, trailblazing and effective about home education then we need people to wake up to their continued conformism.

Most of us think we know what education is. The room is set up with someone who ‘doesn’t know’ sitting down with pen in hand. There is someone in front of them who ‘knows’ about a…