“Labels are OK for marketing something, but does the Unschooling philosophy of life need any marketing? No. In so many ways, Unschooling stands for a refusal of marketing and a rejection of any consumerist approach to learning. Your learning IS your life, not something you purchase subject by subject in the big education supermarket to hang on the wall like a diploma or certificate. Unschooling by its nature does not need to set up an 'Institute of Unschooling' or an 'Unschooling Foundation': that would be the purest contradiction-in-terms, to institutionalize the very practice that most undermines institutionalization!” HomeschoolingUnschoolingHomeschoolUnschoolUnschooledHomeschoolersLearn At Home Book:99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling Source: 99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling
“Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.” LearningTeachingTeachersHomeschoolingUnschoolingHomeschoolUnschoolHomeschoolersUnschoolers Book:99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling Source: 99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling
“The simplest description is that Unschooling means a way of bringing up children using free play and child-directed activity to develop the child's own individual talents and creativity by supportively following up the child's own interests – without coercion, compulsion, manipulation, regimentation, constant testing and grading and rank-ordering, or top-down authoritarianism.” EducationEducational PhilosophyUnschoolingUnschoolHow Kids Learn Book:99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling Source: 99 Questions and Answers About Unschooling