Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)

Children are perfectly capable of determining what is expected of them with out being told what to think. The point here is they are also capable of examining the situation and deciding whether it's in their best interest to do what is expected of them. To many people in this world do what is expected of them because "it's what everyone else is doing". Children here develop a sense of self. I Graduated here and I am perfectly capable of understanding algebra.

(continued) I have never gotten less than a 97% on a paper and I can set up a lab.

A billion things to do. You can sit on the couch, you can read, you can talk! :O OMG!

yeah for unschooling we need more individual learning type schools should have one of these in Victoria Australia

We should.

I'm interested in starting one, and at the moment, I don't care where! I just want one to be around by the time I have kids.

If you live in Australia, especially NSW, get in contact with me, because I am very keen to get one of these schools going down here.

I want to go to this school...
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I'm doing english homework right now.

The only way to be successful is to break rules. A friend of mine talked her way into: a master's degree without taking the last year of classes, and numerous jobs at 1/2 time for full pay. She has the the attitude not (snobbishly) that rules don't apply to HER, but that rules are often nothing more than petty logistical problems. Meanwhile sheep-like people pay the price of not asking if they can opt out.

There are some interesting parallels here with a philosophy of education started by Maria Montessori. She was infact the first child psycologist and developed a method of teaching that if implemented in our country would revolutionise our system of gaining knowledge.

I think of this more as an analogy. take for example a young child being forced by his/her parent to learn piano. (ie my little sister & also me) however due to the fact that authoritarian constraints were placed on the child, the child will have a dislike of the piano.

However if they were on their own terms, they may or may not have chosen to play piano, but they would've been happier.

Just me trying to get some thoughts out of my head.