“INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, n. A program primarily designed for the local elite to showcase their status, signal significance, and sense new networking opportunities. Expatriates, diplomats, and the second languages typically taught by traveling teachers are secondary.”
Source: The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
“HOMESCHOOLING, n. The education of children at any place other than a school—usually by parents, tutors, or a mix of both. Where homeschooling is legal, it follows the public curriculum and tends to grow in correlation with parents’ dissatisfaction with the alternatives. Where it’s illegal, all children are forced to go to school, regardless of affinity, bullies, or circumstances—unless of course there is a pandemic and the adults freak out. See
HOMESCHOOLING in the Guide to Alternative Education.”
Source: The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
“HISTORY, n. The study of the past. In
state schools, this exercise typically
involves popular fairy tales promoted by
those who rule the present.”
Source: The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives
“the Russian government soon shut down laboratory classes in our schools. They didn't want Polish kids to learn about science. They thought education would be dangerous--that it would make us powerful. They were right.”
“What I learned is that it does not matter what you do, or where you go, schools are all organised around the same basic system. It's a system that will never work for a neurodivergent person, no matter how hard they try, because it's entire foundation is built against us.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“However, it's not fair that the only options we currently have for children like me is to either have their parents give over their lives to homeschooling, or to suffer in an environment where every ounce of them is riduculed, ripped apart or forced to changed.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.”
Source: Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
“On the very first Day of School, we had to paint the Letters from the Alphabet with Color. I found 'A' quite funny – at 'B', I didn't want to be in School anymore.”
“The best School stays Life, the best Teacher one's Heart, and Wisdom unthinkable without Pain.”
“І бог, і електрика були для нас однаково незрозумілі. Я відразу прохопився вчительці, що Бог живе в електричних лампочках. Наступного року весь клас знову повели на екскурсію. Того разу до найбільшої гідроелектростанції, з науковою метою. Нам показували велетенські турбіни, залізяки, двигуни і пояснили, що звідси йде електричний струм. Учителька відтягла мене вбік і дуже серйозним тоном спитала, чи я й досі думаю про ті дурниці з електрикою й Господом. Я вже був великий і сказав, що ні. Але вдома, коли вмикав лампу чи плитку, у мене на думці було одне. Бог світив і грів.”
Source: Natural Novel