I am just letting you know I used this comic strip for a speech I did on unschooling for a speech class because I thought it was so perfect. Totally coincidence, because I just stumbled upon this post! There are so many other Calvin and Hobbes strips that show unschooling, so I agree with your assessment of Bill Watterson being an unschooler at heart. 🙂
12/05/2010 at 7:23 am Permalink
Yes! We’re reading C & H to my 5 year-old son and we love how “subvert the dominant paradigm” it is!!!
12/05/2010 at 8:55 am Permalink
Brilliant. We are huge fans of Bill Watterson and I have often thought he was an unschooler by nature too 🙂
14/05/2010 at 2:06 pm Permalink
Calvin and Hobbes are a favourite in our house too.
And I’ve often wondered the exact same thing about Bill Watterson. 🙂
19/05/2010 at 3:04 pm Permalink
Brilliant. We are huge fans of Bill Watterson and I have often thought he was an unschooler by nature too 🙂
27/08/2010 at 7:23 am Permalink
Calvin is so right!
I found this article, I don’t know if this is a good resource for unschooling but it looks like it maybe….
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm
15/12/2011 at 5:45 pm Permalink
I am just letting you know I used this comic strip for a speech I did on unschooling for a speech class because I thought it was so perfect. Totally coincidence, because I just stumbled upon this post! There are so many other Calvin and Hobbes strips that show unschooling, so I agree with your assessment of Bill Watterson being an unschooler at heart. 🙂