HEM columnist Laura Weldon shares a beautifully-written post about an interview from a recent issue. In Calling Out the Buccaneer-Scholars she writes:
I’ve been ruminating every which way about buccaneer living ever since reading a remarkable interview in Home Education Magazine between publisher Helen Hegener and James Marcus Bach. Bach, an internationally recognized expert in [...]
The Nov-Dec issue features an interview with James Marcus Bach, who writes of being “dedicated to a certain lifestyle of mind. I call it intellectual buccaneering. I call myself a buccaneer-scholar. Just as the original buccaneers would not submit to authority in their pursuit of worldly riches, neither do us modern buccaneers yoke ourselves to [...]
On his blog titled How I Learn Stuff, James Marcus Bach, author of Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar, wrote an interesting analysis of the recent Rethinking Education conference:
“I did a couple of talks about being a high school dropout surrounded by college grads. These went over very well, much better than I expected, actually. Being [...]
