I don’t really want to be called a teacher because I want to work on facilitating learning and creating spaces where everyone can take turns sharing their knowledge and learning from others. nerd teacher 🦇 | @[email protected] nerdteacher.com/?p=573

If you’re finding yourself having to teach something, it means you’re not living it. Your living it is the example that teaches. If you have to pull it out and put it in its own special category, that’s where your work is... - Erika Davis-Pitre livingjoyfully.ca/eu241-transcri…

When you put your child in an institution, the life of the child and the life of the family start to revolve around the institution rather than the education of the child. - Brian Ray, NHERI nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/bl…

I realized how many tie the word "learning" to school and at this time I’m just not interested in learning from a school perspective. I’m interested in learning from a human perspective and they are different. Shannon Stoltz

What advice would you give to someone beginning their unschooling/alternative schooling journey? Enjoy the time you have and use it well. Enjoy the freedom you have to explore and try out what interests you. - Lia grownunschoolers.com/lia/

Rewards and punishments, including bad grades, are levied. How often have I seen these methods produce an engaged and motivated student? Never. And yet, the same methodology continues. When it doesn’t work, blame lands on the student. Yvonna Graham dyslexiakit.net/grading-school…

Not with the intent of cramming knowledge down their throat, but experiences, and really filling them up with what the world has to offer. - D'Anne Lawley deseret.com/2021/9/13/2266…

Gaming today is a connected, multiplayer, interactive entertainment experience. It’s full of competition, problem solving, puzzles, logic... It’s also full of conversations, culture, history, musical scores, art, dialogue, moral choices... Cara Lane ideas.ted.com/your-kids-gami…

turning 18 is not suddenly going to erase 2 decades of “training” to defer & blindly accept however they are treated. @MillerUnschool x.com/MillerUnschool…

I chose to focus on music. By the time I reached the end of my teen years I was a proficient pianist, drummer, and producer/songwriter. - Michael Stellman grownunschoolers.com/michael-stellm…

My best advice would be to get involved as much as possible and guide your kids where they want to go. I would’ve missed out on countless wonderful experiences if my parents hadn’t found out about opportunities and asked me if I was interested. -W. Keller grownunschoolers.com/wyatt-keller/

Parents ought to want their children to grow up independent, interdependent and able to direct themselves. The trouble is that we end up providing precious little of this self direction to our children across the childhood. Anthony Eldridge-Rogers FRSA jumpfallfly.com/self-directed-…

I think it’s useful to socialize, the “your own age” part is probably unnecessary. Do socialize with people who will treat you as a full-fledged human regardless of your age. - Luca Masters grownunschoolers.com/luca-masters/

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. - Stephen D. Krashen

Being able to learn in one semester everything that’s covered in four years of high school has reinforced my belief that the public school system is a scam and not worth it. - Ryan Farley grownunschoolers.com/ryan-farley/

It doesn’t matter if you’re a model maker, a potter, a dancer, a programmer, a writer, a political activist, a teacher, a musician, a milliner, whatever. It’s all the same. Making is making, and none of it is failure. - Adam Savage, Every Tool’s a Hammer

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

We are all built to self-direct our learning. We may need to deschool before we can really delve in or feel confident about it, but we can all do it. Trust yourself, allow yourself to make mistakes, and know it’s all part of the process. Bria Bloom (she/her) grownunschoolers.com/bria-bloom/

We were free to stay as long as we wanted, take as many laps as we wanted, and follow whatever conversation our visit prompted. With a class field trip, none of that is possible. - Matt Crossman deseret.com/2021/9/13/2266…

It's the end of an era! As the Conaway Family and now the Miller Family have grown children and are moving on to new adventures and interests - we've made the decision that it's the right time for us to say Thank you and Good Bye. facebook.com/TexasUnschoole…