Learning all the time (High Quality 2)

A completely brand new and totally unique film about home education which challenges assumptions about learning in general and home education in particular.
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[rhyfelwrDuw]

As a home educator I get a bit jittery with this kind of learning - it's great that the children can be out of doors etc but what would they do as a career? I understand that people don't want their children incarcerated in a classroom all day but children become adults and adults have to be skilled for the employment market! Maybe you guys have it sussed... Hope all goes well for you

[Georgie7648]

There are loads of films showing home ed kids sitting at the kitchen table and it's largely regarded as a settled issue that home ed doesn't lack academic rigour. So I decided to tackle the myth that home ed kids don't have friends and spend all their time shut in the house. As for employment? We consider it vital that our kids have the practical skills needed to support themselves rather than the pieces of paper that would qualify them for entry to wage-slavery!

[rsjewellll]

It is absolutley fantastic and shows us that we don't have to be in school at a desk in order to learn. It is a really amazing film. Sorcha, aged 9.

[Georgie7648]

@rsjewellll

Thanks Sorcha. Glad you liked it.

[12notice]

I love it, this is living

[argenus]

sooooo cute

[Georgie7648]

I just meant that finding employment is not the only solution for providing for one's material needs and not the one we recommend for our children. If you cannot build your house and maintain it, make the things you need and grow/produce the food you need, then you are gonna be in trouble when there's no longer any food getting to the shops. If you can do all these things, you need a much lower wage which means you don't need to accumulate all the pieces of paper needed to get high paid job!

[rhyfelwrDuw]

But he does need that qualification as proof he can work. I guess we all know our kids' needs and what works for them...

I agree with you having to tackle the myth that home ed kids don't have friends etc - I'm sure people think that we keep our kids locked in cupboards all day and don't allow them to meet other children/people. Home ed kids mix with a greater age range of people than schooled kids who only seem to be able to associate with their peers.

[rhyfelwrDuw]

Wage slavery? Not sure what you mean by that... Unfortunately in our bureaucratic society employers demand qualifications - which imho sucks - experience far outweighs anything written down on paper, but what can we do - e.g. my son wants to be a physicist and has done since the age of 10 (he's nearly 17) so he has to obtain a qualification to allow him entry into uni to follow the path he wants to. He probably knows a lot just by all the books he's read!

[diamondxmoonx]

love it :)

[versiongirl77]

I home educate my 7 yr old son for many reasons, its the best decision i have ever made,i think its the most natural thing in the world to want to spend as much time with our children,nurturing them but letting them learn things in life as they grow from day to day! :)