Thursday, September 06, 2007
words from Joyce
Unschooling works if there are two factors:
1) The parent understands it.
2) The parent's goals for their child match what unschooling can do.
Academics, who obviously have a lot invested in school working and
being necessary, have a hard time grasping that it can work. So
anything negative they write is from a point of not understanding.
Anyone who has goals that unschooling isn't meant to meet -- getting
any child into Harvard, keeping a child academically on par with the
schools, getting a specific type of feedback that learning is taking
place -- is going to find things to complain about unschooling. But
that's like complaining that the hammer didn't spread butter well.
# posted by Anne @ 5:52 AM 
