The First Day

Well, today was the first day of unschooling...sort of.  I say sort of bc as of yet I am not a hardcore unschooler.  My kids do have bedtimes and mealtimes.  I am not sure what I think about letting them make all those decisions by themselves...Regardless, today has started out great.  I printed off some worksheets about parts of th body...a map of the human skeleton, organs, outer body part word jumble (which E loved, and kindley helped C do), and a body part word jumble.  I use worksheets bc the children like them.  If they did not, I would use soemthing else.  Now, the kids are watching tv, while I get computer work done:)  I think I will get some books from the library about the body.  I do not think I will ge to math today bc the kiddos have to prepare for Awana.  Well, that is all now...Here are a few quotes that are thought-provoking....Also, here is a link to an unschooling website:  http://anunschoolinglife.com/

“It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
-Albert Einstein

“Schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes any more that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.”
-John Taylor Gatto

“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how to behave when we don’t know what to do”

-John Holt

“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

-John Holt

That is all for now.  I do want to express that I am not against those who choose school or teachers...the above is the path we have chosen for our children, and what works best for our family.  Thanks for reading.