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99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom QUOTES

1 " Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this. "

― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek , 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom

2 " 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. "

― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek , 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom

3 " Labels are OK for marketing something, but does the Unschooling philosophy of life need any marketing? No. In so many ways, Unschooling stands for a refusal of marketing and a rejection of any consumerist approach to learning.

Your learning IS your life, not something you purchase subject by subject in the big education supermarket to hang on the wall like a diploma or certificate. Unschooling by its nature does not need to set up an 'Institute of Unschooling' or an 'Unschooling Foundation': that would be the purest contradiction-in-terms, to institutionalize the very practice that most undermines institutionalization! "

― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek , 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom

4 " Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen. "

― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek , 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom

5 " There are as many approaches to unschooling as there are people, by design. A child is supported to read when ready and interested, not on another’s timetable, for example. He can and will be encouraged to pursue a wide range of interests, based on his interests, such as free play, inventing, experimenting scientifically, video gaming, role modeling through friendship, spiritual development through inquiry of self and others, athletics, learning to trust himself and others. "

― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek , 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom