How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? -Henry David Thoreau
Russell: Education as an Obstacle
Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. -Bertrand Russell
Holt: Human Nature 2
Human beings are born intelligent. We are by nature question-asking, answer-making problem-solving animals, and we are extremely good at it, above all when we are little. But under certain conditions, which may exist anywhere and certainly exist almost all of the time in almost all schools, we stop using our greatest intellectual powers, stop wanting […]
Kohn: No Need for Judgement
If your parent or teacher…is sitting in judgement of what you do, and if that judgement will determine whether good things or bad things happen to you, this cannot help but warp your relationship with that person. You will not be working collaboratively in order to learn or grow; you will be trying to get […]
Bedtimes
What!? No bed times! Are you nuts!? That’s usually the reaction we get when people find out our unschooled children don’t have a “bedtime”. Most of us grew up with imposed bedtimes, and adopted the belief that good parents make sure their children get enough sleep by setting and sticking to bedtimes. Dig underneath a […]