'Learn Free' (an unschooling documentary)

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"Learn Free" is a documentary about unschooling which is an educational philosophy that states children learn best by not attending traditional school, but rather through their own interests and by living life.

Original: http://vimeo.com/14975153
By: Lillian Mauser-Carter ( http://vimeo.com/mausercarter )
Website: http://mausercarter.web.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx

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POSTED WITH PERMISSION FROM LILLIAN MAUSER-CARTER - 06/17/2011

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[wheelmanstan]

a google education could probably beat the hell out of the norm

Schools have pretty much turned into thought prisons. Imagine what you could learn in 13 years if you were out in the world exploring and discovering vs reciting information from textbooks.

I know a home schooled kid who is kind of a nutcase but he does have a hell of an imagination.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

-Albert Einstein

watch "waiting for superman" at documentarywire dotcom

[swu880]

@AnarchoHumanist

public schools are already daycares- super expensive overpriced daycares where they indoctrinate u

The only hope is if u actually totally break away from this malicious system which is controlled by the state & for the state. I suggest u actually study what is learning & the various SPONTANEOUS ways that learning comes about.

also there are many private schools & places such as sylvan learning are generally much better than 99% of the public schools-

[scaboi]

@TheTravelfool By getting books from the bookstore or library.

[ThePhantom135]

I could actually see this as an effective way to learn especially how easy it is to access information nowadays with the Internet.

[heikophilo]

"Nothing" by "The Rebel Set" was a really good choice.

[LexieDeaves]

@StupidTalkingTree btw I know a lady she was pretty much unschooled as a kid...well she is 27 and she is getting her GED right now...Science opens people eyes, math helps people think outside the box. Of course not all people have the same believe in what unschooling is, some actually do more than just watch tv and go to museums. Gifted kids dont always need school(some public schools suck) because they like learning and don't waste time.

[LexieDeaves]

@StupidTalkingTree well I didnt leave comment about that, someone else did but that someone else might have been 8 but she knows what she is talking about. I have never heard of them or read their books so they must have not been that amazing after all. So far unschooled that Ive met knew nothing, not in math not in science...wont say anything about history.Algebra is not for a profession, you should do research on that.I am in art school and I use algebra everyday.

[StupidTalkingTree]

@tairanotomomori Being an unschooler myself, I'll be a social worker most likely. Possibly traveling the world, and running my own business. It really depends on what exactly I want to do at any given time.

[StupidTalkingTree]

@Lucailey No, it's teaching them that there's other choices then school. I'm assuming that if anyone of those kids said "Can I go to school?" their parents would say yes. And if we want to go to college, we will, or get a "real" job, we'll learn the things we need to, to do so. ._.

[StupidTalkingTree]

@pentatonia & most unschoolers do understand it. I know 16 year olds in college, that are doing amazing. I know an 18 year old unschooler who runs her own business,Not many 18 year olds can say that, they can say they're going to college, most likely to learn to do something they probably don't want to learn, because they just spend the last 12 years of their lives learning pointless stuff, but are doing so, to please their parents. & By the way, this is coming from a 14 year old unschooler.c:

[StupidTalkingTree]

@LexieDeaves But the real question is, in our society, roughly, not many of us are going to need algebra, most jobs don't need it. Unschooling 9 year olds? A lot of them do amazing things. I know unschooling 14 year olds who have written books, and traveled to different countries, and met people, and had experiences that your "average" adult hasn't even thought of having.