This is a great ad for unschooling…Compulsory schooling is forced.
“You are your worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you’re only half involved in what you do.” ~ Robert Greene
“Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.” ~ John Dewey
“Limit yourself to the present.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
https://www.unschooling.com/search?q=Lao%20Tzu
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
“Begin at once to live, and count each sepa…
Why do people choose unschooling as a way of learning?
Here are 13 reasons why not to go to school: Aside from the fact it is a complete waste of our two most valuable assets in life: time and energy. Your life is determined by how you manage these two assets so ask yourself if you’re truly spending your time and energy wisely or are you wasting your most important assets being a cog in the machine?
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” ~…
Voluntarism is the theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
“The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector.” ~ Henry Hazlitt
“Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.” ~ Rod Serling
"Both political and economic life ought to be founded on the varie…
“One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.” ~ John Taylor Gatto
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"First we overlook evil,
Then we permit evil.
Then we legalize evil.
Then we promote evil.
Then we celebrate evil.
Then we persecute those who still call it evil."
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“Homeschooling is an act of liberation and an act of passion. It is an occasion to walk away from institutional images of life and to embrace a vision that is filled with personal meaning and unmistakable truths for our families. The quality of awareness that comes from the heart is more dependable… Homeschooling… is about helping make it possible for children to reach maturity with healthy, curious, fully conscious minds.” ~ Earl Gary Stevens
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, o…
"Flow is an optimal state of consciousness “in which attention is so narrowly focused on an activity that a sense of time fades, along with the troubles and concerns of day-to-day life.” ~ Natasha Dow Schüll
[How to Escape from a Sick Society]
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“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” ~ Jim Rohn
“There is no knowledge that is not power.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” ~ Aristotle
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Education is not about degree and diploma, it is all about knowledge and…
