{"quotes":[{"text":"Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.","author":"Kytka Hilmar-Jezek","tags":["homeschool","homeschoolers","homeschooling","learning","teachers","teaching","unschool","unschoolers","unschooling"],"id":12073,"author_id":"Kytka+Hilmar-Jezek"},{"text":"Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.","author":"Peter Gray","tags":["academics","alternative","children","coercion","education","freedom","homeschooling","indoctrination","kids","learn","learning","liberty","prussian-education-system","state-schools","unschooling","voluntaryism"],"id":27563,"author_id":"Peter+Gray"},{"text":"Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.","author":"John Holt","tags":["education","educational-philosophy","homeschool","homeschooling","learning-by-doing","unschooling"],"id":30187,"author_id":"John+Holt"},{"text":"There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.","author":"Christopher Langan","tags":["autodidact","autodidactism","education","education-reform","educational-philosophy","educational-system","homeschooling","intelligence","knowledge","public-school-system","school","school-reform","school-system","self-taught","truth","unschooling"],"id":32418,"author_id":"Christopher+Langan"},{"text":"An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we strive to achieve throughout our whole lives?","author":"Lehla Eldridge","tags":["children","education","jumpfallfly","parenting","unschooling"],"id":41277,"author_id":"Lehla+Eldridge"},{"text":"The simplest description is that Unschooling means a way of bringing up children using free play and child-directed activity to develop the child's own individual talents and creativity by supportively following up the child's own interests – without coercion, compulsion, manipulation, regimentation, constant testing and grading and rank-ordering, or top-down authoritarianism.","author":"Kytka Hilmar-Jezek","tags":["education","educational-philosophy","how-kids-learn","unschool","unschooling"],"id":60388,"author_id":"Kytka+Hilmar-Jezek"},{"text":"My goal has always been to inspire in them an ongoing love of learning. To awaken a feeling where their work is their passion, so that they never feel burdened or trapped by meeting their material needs, but instead thrive and experience wealth doing what they love while making a positive contribution to the world. To me that is the truest definition of success.","author":"Kytka Hilmar-Jezek","tags":["how-children-learn","learning","unschooling"],"id":77182,"author_id":"Kytka+Hilmar-Jezek"},{"text":"Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. 'Leadership qualities' are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.","author":"John Holt","tags":["education","homeschooling","leadership","unschooling"],"id":84181,"author_id":"John+Holt"},{"text":"Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process.","author":"Mommy Moo Moo","tags":["homeschooling","learning","unschooling"],"id":93158,"author_id":"Mommy+Moo+Moo"},{"text":"Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody beyond school age says it is. It's not polite. We all tiptoe around the truth because admitting it would make us seem cruel and would point a finger at well-intentioned people doing what they believe to be essential. . . . A prison, according to the common, general definition, is any place of involuntary confinement and restriction of liberty. In school, as in adult prisons, the inmates are told exactly what they must do and are punished for failure to comply. Actually, students in school must spend more time doing exactly what they are told than is true of adults in penal institutions. Another difference, of course, is that we put adults in prison because they have committed a crime, while we put children in school because of their age.","author":"Peter Gray","tags":["school","unschooling"],"id":119248,"author_id":"Peter+Gray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}