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Suzanne Andrews's avatar

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."

Ivan Illich

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Linda Wilk's avatar

So many families, post pandemic, have elected to stay with home-schooling.

The forced homestay freed them -- exposed them to the freedom of un-schooling.

I rejoice, having freed my children when bullying tormented them, I found that nature, and small groups studying at home with friends and loving parents and people who loved learning gave them a new lease on learning.

Learning because they wanted to learn -- learning to love learning! Learning how to learn and research and be curious rather than learning to test. Now my daughter, as she and her kids work with others in an online school setting, are gradually rejecting what the teachers try to enforce, and are finding their way to the unschool atmosphere. I read that the numbers of homeschoolers grow yearly, as parents have the courage to speak out against the boredom, the tedium, the institutional violence against children. Tedium is not learning. Institutions are not learning. Creativity thrives in free environs.

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