unschoold.com a place for unschoolers

Live together, as well as you can; enjoy life together, as much as you can. Ask questions to find out something about the world itself, not to find out whether or not someone knows it.

Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.