education pupose - new ideas

Hello beautiful family,



How are you and your family today?

To keep up with intersesting content, we will share some thoughts about educating kids.
We made so good experiences doing waht we do, that we want to share from our knowledge and give you something to think about.

Even if your kids are at a normal school, you may find some things here interesting.


This way of education means trusting that your child will learn what he/she needs to learn for his/her life.

It's not following some educator or bureaucrat's guidelines. Children are unique and each will need their own unique knowledge and skills to become the adult he/she is meant to be. All we, as parents, can do is be his/her facilitator - providing him/her with the needed resources and the freedom in which to learn.

Children will learn. They crave learning, just as they need air to breathe and food to eat. Remember how your toddler found everything new and exciting? If your child has attended public school, you have probably seen that, after a few years, their love for learning and their excitement about the world slowly faded away.

This is called unscholing, and we do it for years now with our children.

For our family, unschooling brought back that excitement.
Children are like flowers. Give them lots of love (sunshine), some gentle guidelines (weeding), lots of freedom to learn what they want (rain), and lots of resources to learn from (soil), and they will bloom!


What, specifically, is it about schools that unschoolers want to do without?

The School Organization

* Breaking up the day into learning time and play time.
* Starting and stopping learning (or shifting topics) according to an externally-imposed schedule.
* Telling students what they should care about.
* Telling students when they should care about it.
* Telling students what is good enough.
* The complex hierarchy with the student at the bottom.



The De-humanizing Aspects of Schools

* Having to ask permission for basic human needs.
* Having to supply "acceptable" excuses for absence or lateness.
* Routine abridgment of human (constitutional) rights.
* Standing in lines, waiting for everything: food, water, attention of the teacher, time on the computer, etc.
* Group rewards and punishments.
* Neglect of individual gifts and problems.
* Moving at the sound of a bell.
* Students coming to view themselves as products, moving down a 12-year assembly line, with bits of knowledge poured in or bolted on by others as the belt moves along. Seeing the primary responsibility for their education as being in the hands of others.



Isolation from the Real World

* Segregation by chronological age.
* Separation from family.
* Isolation from the working world.
* Isolation from the effects of age and disease.
* "Free" education isolates children from economic reality.
* Subject matter is divorced from context.



Schedule Rigidity

* Having to be in school at certain times means you can't see the World Cup or a solar eclipse if it happens during the school day, and you can't see the late show or a lunar eclipse if you have to get up in the morning.
* Having to be in school limits your ability to travel.
* Having to be in school limits your ability to do any time-consuming worthwhile activity.

Note that these issues do not address the questions of "problem schools." They are unrelated to questions of crime, drugs, threat of violence, time spent in forced commuting, illiterate teachers, etc. The problems unschoolers specifically care about exist (to a greater or lesser extent) even in "good" schools.


useful link for more information:
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See how we do itin practice in our video at youtube

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