Videos:

• What if we trusted you? TEDx talk – A great video for those who are wanting to understand how the public school systems are set up around the belief that children do not want to learn. Also does a great intro to unschooling and explaining what it is.
• Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson
• Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson
• Hackschooling Makes Me Happy TEDx talk – Approx 11 min long video where a 12 year old challenges the need to have schools and the purpose of schools as they exist today.
• Agile Programming for the Family by Bruce Feiler

Books about Education in General:  

(* represents a quick read)

• Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
• Education and the Significance of Life* by J. Krishnamurti
• Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
• Beyond Discipline by Alfie Kohn
• Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
• The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
• Record of a Friendship Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neil

Books about Democratic Education:

• *Free to Learn, by Peter Gray.
• Read a preview of the book here.
• Summerhill, by A.S. Neil
• Democratic Education by Yaachov Hecht
• Free at Last, by Daniel Greenberg

Books about Unschooling/Hacking your own education:

• Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School,* by Grace Llewellyn
• Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn
• Better than College* and College Without High School* by Blake Boles
• Don’t Go Back to School by Kio Stark (this is geared toward not going back to college, summary of the book here
• Everywhere All The Time: A New Deschooling Reader ed. by Matt Hern

Other Helpful Books to understand Free to Learn’s philosophy.

• Drive* and A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
• Flow by Mihayli Csikszentmihalyi, if you want to read an article on his thoughts on education before checking out his book click here
• Mindset by Carol Duwek
• On Dialogue by David Bohm  
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
• Love 2.0  by Barbara L. Fredrickson Ph.D.
• Personal Kanban by Jim Benson & Tonianne Barry
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• People in Trouble Wilhelm Reich

• The Murder of Christ Wilhelm Reich

• Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich

• Cosmic Superimposition Wilhelm Reich

• Living on Your Own Terms Osho

• Love, Freedom and Aloneness Osho

• Breaking Open the Head Daniel Pinchbeck

• The Cunning of History Rich Rubenstein

• The Persian Letters Montesquieu

  This is It Alan Watts

• Become What You Are Alan WattsThe Book Alan Watts

Books About Child Development/Parenting

• Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort
• Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World by H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen
• Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) by Lenore Skenazy
• Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
• The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
• The Daily Groove: How To Enjoy Parenting… Unconditionally! by Scott Noelle

Other Developmental Models

• Piaget’s Stages of Development http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/a/keyconcepts.htm
• Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg’s_stages_of_moral_development
• Gilligan’s Stages of Moral Development http://humangrowth.tripod.com/id2.html
• Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson’s_stages_of_psychosocial_development
• Integral Stages of Development https://www.integrallife.com/tags/stages-development
• Spiral Dynamics’ Stages of Social Development http://www.spiraldynamics.net/DrDonBeck/essays/stages_of_social_development.htm