Brent Cameron
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC.
E-mail: brentcameron@wondertree.org

Brent Cameron, a doctoral student, is Executive Director of the Wondertree Foundation for Natural Learning. In 1982, my daughter walked out of kindergarten after two weeks because she realized that she would lose control of her life if she went to school. Along with her birth, this event changed my life because she asked me to be her teacher and to keep doing what we had been doing for the past five years. I began a learning experiment in honour of the ability of every child to learn naturally from their enthusiasm to understand and their curiosity about how the world works. For the past 20 years, I have been engaged with children and teens who learn outside the school system yet inside the domain of their heart and their neurology. I am inspired daily by the amazing intra- and interpersonal events that occur when one lives in a learning community based on fascination and fulfillment. I am writing a book about my journey which I hope will be published in 2003. The book will be called SelfDesign - The Wondertree Story.