Ruth Gaskovski

1 month ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Peter Limberg |Paul Kingsnorth |Katherine Dee

We had a tremendous response to our invitation for readers to join us in a Communal Digital Fast during Lent, with many enthusiastically looking forward to an intentional commitment of recovering cognitive liberty and restoring our human default. I don’t want to merely detox from the digisphere. I want to change my whole relationship to it—the entire way I think about it. Because I’m fed up of feeling less alive because of it.

2 months ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane

When I first started out homeschooling over fifteen years ago, I was fortunate enough to connect with two “veteran” homeschool moms who generously shared their insights into different curricula and learning routines with me. They offered me an opportunity to examine their resources along with the reasons for choosing them. I much preferred this method of examining potential curricula, as it saved me from being overwhelmed with catalogues and online reviews.

2 months ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Jonathan Haidt |Jacqueline Nesi |Cara Goodwin

Today I read the most recent post on ’s by psychologist and , Research-Backed Advice on Screen Policies for Young Kids. Normally I find myself nodding along in agreement to most of the work shared on After Babel, but sensed that something crucial was missing in the advice being offered. While Haidt does emphasize delay, the problem is that the article rests on the assumption that screens will inevitably be a big part of our children’s lives.

2 months ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future. Arthur M.

2 months ago | schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane

Would you like to connect with me to talk about your homeschooling questions, or simply to chat about family life? I have been a home educator for over fifteen years, have coordinated various co-ops and community programs, and have met and advised a vast variety of homeschool families over the years. Starting next week, I will offer a 40-min. “one-on-one zoom chat” for annual paying subscribers.