“We didn't want our children to waste their time in the same empty rituals of education that we did: passing tests only to forget the subject matter when the grades were given; spending years with passing grades in foreign-language instruction yet being unable to have even a rudimentary conversation in the language outside of the classroom; struggling to learn advanced math skills that were seldom used outside of class; doing lab experiments that were more rote exercises than scientific inquiries. Time and youth cannot be regained, so perhaps, ultimately, the real crisis in education may be one of disillusionment among graduates rather than poor performance among current students.” SchoolEducationUnschoolingHomeschoolSelf Directed Learning Book:Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home Source: Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
“Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.” FreedomEducationLibertyFamilyLearningPsychologySchoolingHomeschoolingHomeschool Author:John Holt
“It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.” EducationLearningHomeschoolingHomeschool Author:John Holt