What is Unschooling
Before I embarked on this journey, tackled this challenge, stirred the boiling soup…whatever analogy you want to use – I never even knew something like homeschooling existed. It was magnificent for me to pour over books and websites and blogs and yahoo groups and learn more about this phenomenal thing called homeschooling. I was utterly enthralled.
You see, I was brought up with the certain knowledge that going to school and working really, really hard and getting good grades was the only way to go. That to get accepted into a tertiary institutions in order to study some more to ultimately get some kind of well respected job and status and money, was to hit the jackpot in life.
So imagine my surprise when I found out about homeschooling. Now, going a step further, or a step in a bit of a different direction – just imagine my surprise and sheer and utter delight when I found out about UNSCHOOLING!
Commonly unschooling is defined as child-led and interest-led learning. I kind of like this definition a bit better -
“Unschooling is individual-led learning that occurs on an as-needed or as-desired basis. What? That isn’t unschooling! Isn’t that just life? Exactly.”
http://www.leapingfromthebox.com/art/kmg/unschoolingadult.html