Unschooling
Learning from the Heart Lately, I've been brooding over the idea of unschooling.What is at its core, and why do some families adhere to it? Browsing through various articles on the net, I found out what it is and what it is not. Here are snippets of ideas worth ruminating: What it is Not 1. It is not putting on the brakes in learning. You do not stop learning when you embrace unschooling. 2.It is not a relentless pursuit of fun or satiation of personal appetites and enjoyment.You cannot just do as you please and abandon your sense of right and wrong. 3.It is not despising formal learning situations and opportunities. What it is 1. It is a change in paradigm on learning, premised on the following quote of George Bernard Shaw: "The child should be the one in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursit of the child." 2. It is living first and learning along the way. The desire to learn according to John Holt is innate in man - as