It was an education that is missing in public schools today but still exists in many private schools-and can for you and your children, too, if you take time to learn how to learn.

Some education experts think calculators are used too much. Children, they say, learn to depend on these electronic brains instead of their own.

Unschooling is easier for parents because they need not plan lessons or grade tests but more difficult in that learning is ever-present and collaborative.