51 Quotes About Unschooling

Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.

To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences. They have something to contribute. They want to be a part of things.It’s up to us to give them the opportunity to express their creativity, explore widely, and connect with their own meaningful work.

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,Had a wife and couldn't keep her.Of course you cannot keep a wife-Everyone's got to live their life!

People should make use of resources that work for them, but as with any act of consumption, carefully considering the necessity and ramifications makes for more mindful, meaningful living.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he's not interested, it's like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.

Each of us is born with a crazy passion to learn. Each of us craves knowledge of our world and our place within it. We learn because we want to learn, because it's important to us, because it's natural, and because it's impossible to live in the world and not learn. Then along comes school to mess up a beautiful thing.