The Philosophy of Unschooling

What in the world is unschooling? Unschooling is an educational philosophy that provides for more freedom than any other learning method, and prepares kids for an uncertain and rapidly changing future better than anything else I know.

Unschooling is a form of homeschooling except the classes do not have subjects, the children set their own goals, the children are in charge of their own learning, learn to think for themselves instead of following directions, and anything can be used to learn such as a museum not just textbooks.

Unschooling can be done anywhere, it does not have to take place between 8am and 4pm in a certain building. The world is theirs to explore.

Unschooling takes a different approach: kids learn how to learn, how to teach themselves. If you know how to learn and how to teach yourself, then you are prepared for any future. If in the future the things we know are obsolete, then the person who knows how to learn anything will be ready to learn whatever is in use in the future. The person who only knows how to learn from a teacher will need a teacher to teach him.

I personally do not agree with unschooling. Unschooling will put billions of teachers out of a job. Also all the money those teachers spent on becoming the best educator possible will go to waste and they will be stuck in debt. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur. What happens when your child wants to go on to college, and has been unschooled their whole life. The child does not have a high school diploma or a GED, the first step in applying to college. Everyone needs a degree if they want to be somewhat successful in the real world, and a doctorate if they want to make a decent paycheck. If you put a student in a classroom who is unfamiliar with how a classroom is run, then that student will be destined to fail. Teachers are not teaching your child how to be a robot, they are showing them how to interact in society while helping them learn useful skills such as reading, writing, analyzing, and experimenting. A child who goes to school can do everything a child who is being unschooled does.