Introduction
The unschooling approach to homeschooling is not a new approach to learning. It’s the way we learn naturally when left to follow our interests. It’s also the way most children learned before modern compulsory schooling. Unschooling is not a method, as you will learn, but a flexible approach for individual families and individual children.
Unschooling acknowledges that we learn all the time, that all learning is important, and that learning occurs within the learner. It cannot be caused to occur or prevented from occurring, but a child’s natural curiosity and love of learning can be inhibited through the use of coercion.
The difference between unschooling and other approaches to homeschooling are most notable not in practice but in philosophy. Unschooling is a frame of mind, a way of seeing the world, of being in the world. Unschooling prompts us to question the true best interests of our children and ourselves, to question our true natures, and it encourages us to be respectful and mindful in all things.
Lessons
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