I was introduced to the idea of unschooling by grown unschooler and writer Kate Fridkis who contacted me about submitting a guest post on my blog. Before that, I had never heard the term. It wasn’t long before my fascination with unschooling became an obsession. Learning without school? People did this? How’d they turn out? What did they do all day? How did they learn stuff? Didn’t they need school to learn? If they didn’t learn things in the order and way schools said they should, how would they be prepared for life or college?
I had to know more! I bought book books, read blogs, joined discussion groups, went to meetings, listened to podcasts, and started writing about what I was learning. To date, I have written more than 70 unschooling articles which you can read at this link.
What was most fascinating to me is that learning without school shattered every myth I’d been told was true about school. In fact I learned that you could learn to read without school, write without school, and ultimately pursue any interest imaginable all without school. As I researched and studied what happened to grown unschoolers I found that these individuals had very desirable characteristics in common that schooled children often did not have the opportunity to gain. For instance, they seemed to have a more clear sense of their passions and seemed happy and satisfied with their life path. They also knew if they didn’t know something, it wasn’t a big deal. They could figure out how to learn anything.
If unschooling is something you or someone you know would like to know more about, I share below some of the resources I used on my learning journey.
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What was most fascinating to me is that learning without school shattered every myth I’d been told was true about school. In fact I learned that you could learn to read without school, write without school, and ultimately pursue any interest imaginable all without school. As I researched and studied what happened to grown unschoolers I found that these individuals had very desirable characteristics in common that schooled children often did not have the opportunity to gain. For instance, they seemed to have a more clear sense of their passions and seemed happy and satisfied with their life path. They also knew if they didn’t know something, it wasn’t a big deal. They could figure out how to learn anything.
If unschooling is something you or someone you know would like to know more about, I share below some of the resources I used on my learning journey.