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Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time. -- Sandra Dodd
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'. -- Grace Llewellyn
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing. -- Sandra Dodd
Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship. -- John Ralston Saul
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -- Abraham Lincoln
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions. -- Noam Chomsky
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security. -- Charles Handy
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. -- Tom Peters

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