Unschooling Quotes

Unschooling Quote of the day

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Rock-a-bye Baby In the tree topWhen the wind blows The cradle will rock.When the bough breaksThe cradle will fallAnd Mama will catch you Cradle and all!

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her dear dog a bone.Though the cupboard was bare, When she focused elsewhereHer heart overflowed with fun!

An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we strive to achieve throughout our whole lives?

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very good.And when she was “bad”, Her Papa loved her anyway.

Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.

Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process.

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

The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.