Sunday, April 24, 2011

carl aldrich

unschooling: homeschooling without the school

Aldrich says unschooling offers a blueprint for meaningful and relevant education, helping children learn to be — who they are and who they want to be — and learn to do, developing skills through practice and passion.
At conventional schools children learn neither to be nor to do. Instead, schools focus almost entirely on learning to know, cramming kids full of facts that most of them will be able summon on their smart phones in seconds.