Free Learning & Worldschooling

A engaging collection of personal stories and practical resources about location-independent democratic education, home schooling, self-directed learning, communal living, and the importance of raising children as responsible global citizens.

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February 6, 2019

New Education: Out of the classroom and into the wild

The article is the SECOND PART of an ongoing series. Read from the beginning at New Education: A year without a principal. Previously, I shared the […]
January 28, 2019

New Education: A year without a principal

How we pulled our kids out of school and taught them to be world citizens A few years ago my wife and I had the bright […]
October 2, 2018

Helpful Tips for WorkAway with Kids

As the popularity of our Travel Blog has skyrocketed over the past year, so the quantity of fan mail and follow-up questions arriving in our inbox […]
April 22, 2018

The Social Experiment of a Lifetime

Our far-flung adventures with Work-Away may have tapered off in the last 10 months, but I think we are overdue for an update on the great […]
July 9, 2017

No Holds Barred: Settling down in a Spanish village

Fourteen months ago we embarked on a journey, an ambitious undertaking many years in the making. We liked to think of it as a voyage of […]
May 17, 2017

The Gift of Gab: Back to school in Cerdanya

The number of things we’ve learned about on this trip is virtually unthinkable, from the social hierarchy of domesticated bovine to the proper preparation of an […]
May 9, 2017

Q & A: Post WorkAway interview with the traveling family

For the last year or more, I’ve been regaling you with tales and misadventures from the WorkAway road show, from one unique perspective: mine. Now, at […]
April 28, 2017

Freewheelin in Freiburg: WorkAway tour winds down

Two weeks ago—or was it three?—we packed up the bus and bid farewell to Erfurt, Germany, heading south toward the Spanish Pyrenees. Which has prompted a […]
March 28, 2017

World Citizens: Children Without Borders

In this era of rising nationalism and robust border building, the need to bring up children as world citizens is greater than ever. That’s a big […]