“Unschooling Quotes” – a good starting point

“One..! One..! One..! GO!” With a swoosh he goes squealing down the slide, one foot up in the air, then PLOP on the mulch! Up and around again and again… “One..! One..! One..! GO!” I think it’s my new favorite quote!

It’s an exciting beginning for little Genesis! (Geno for short) Up up up and away!

Look at his toes curling as he climbs the fence… so full of energy, so full of natural curiosity, so happy as he starts life!

I’m at a starting point too. An incredible journey lies ahead with my little boys. They amaze me every day with the new things they do and say… that I didn’t teach them!

I’ve dedicated a page just for unschooling quotes. It’s a good reminder of the futility of preprogrammed compulsory schooling. It’s also a very good place to start for those who are new to the idea of interest driven learning.

Click here to see all my favorite UNSCHOOLING QUOTES

A Perfect Education – Every Parent’s dream

     The low hum of the bright white fluorescent lights faded as my curiosity peaked. That, was one thick book in that kid’s lap! Home schooling at the dentist all peaceful like… “It’s your turn buddy”, I thought as I floated past the magazine table and casually picked up the abandoned curriculum from the only available seat in the lobby… packed by siblings pretending to be into their school volumes.

 

        Was this to be the math source we would use?? It was so attractive with all that color and modern glossy binding! Then the lights in my head went dim… Wrong answers and skipped problems provided undeniable testimony to yet one more genius bored to death by those endless, meaningless, skull drilling “work” sheets.

 

        Something was wrong, desperately wrong. The wonderful world of math was dark and twisted. The very tools imposed on us to learn it seamed designed to create phobia.

 

        But I had one good weapon to combat the despair. My mind reverted to language study. The traditional school thing is so pathetic, that I had already come up with my own way of learning a language. Could curricular math be that bad too? NO! It is worse.  What about the rest? “There must be a better way to learn math… and everything else”, I thought.

 

        Down the uncertain, unscheduled, untested (unscored), unused road of unschooling I went. Unschooling echoed out of some deep un-understood ditch – a bit barbaric perhaps. It was a frightening betrayal to the great god of general education. But I wasn’t alone! Then came along those meaningful comforting terms like “interest driven learning” etc. etc. making it not so scary after all.

 

        Along my way I discovered democratic schools, John Taylor Gatto, John Holt, Sandra Dodd, Einstein, Galileo, Ansel Adams… Then, one day as while deleting excessive e-mails, I gave in. The concrete fortress of our holy school system caved in on itself. As I finished reading the article, I knew I was in for a lifetime adventure. I was done with school as I knew it. I was ready to live and let my children live too. (original article)

 

        This blog will help me keep track of my journey!

Interest Driven + Dad = Unschooling Dad

Interest Driven Learning

It’s all about learning naturally… and one more blog to help you do so! I was raised on regular curricular boringlar homeschooling. Two years ago, I discovered unschooling, and now I’ll be posting my adventures!

Free at last!

Let’s see where this takes us!

Stephen Dindinger.