“Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:—How comes it to be furnished? … To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE." ~ John Locke, [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]
“Children who live surrounded by rules, instead of learning about principles, end up becoming adept at getting around rules, finding the loopholes in rules, disguising non-compliance, or deflecting blame for non-compliance (i.e. lying about what they did). These are the skills that they then bring into adult life.” ~ Robyn Coburn
"Often a child’s very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness—and his ability to be critical) will confront …
Schools are a breeding ground of bad habits
“The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.” ~ Charlotte M. Mason
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” ~ John Dryden
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” ~ Maria Edgeworth
“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.” ~ John Taylor Ga…
Is there a better way to learn about REAL LIFE than by living it? Life is too short to spend nearly a quarter of our lives being schooled how to live.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for ‘life’ or ‘growing up uninstitutionalized’.” ~ Grace Llewellyn
“You only have one life to live. Make sure it’s yours.” ~ Eleanor Brown
“It’s not how long you live, but how well y…
