Unschooling
freedomainradio.com/ daynamartin.com/ www.vforvoluntary.com/ Animation by Luke Bessey - www.youtube.com/user/lukebessey Quotes used: Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. - Alice Miller We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not. -H. L. Mencken Public school--where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression. -Emma Goldman It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry. -John Taylor Gatto Most people, most of the time, learn most of what they know about science and technology outside of school. -National Science Foundation My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. -Margaret Mead How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude. -Winston Churchill Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -George Santayana I do not believe much in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be. -Albert Einstein Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. -Mark Twain Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. - Alice Miller No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. - John Holt Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. - Albert Einstein Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.- Isaac Asimov It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -Albert Einstein How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? - Henry D. Thoreau Music Track - ccmixter.org/files/hisboyelroy/430 Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus
