Living In Captivity

[Unschooling]

Engineers Without Degrees

Humans apparently need degrees to do what birds learn to do naturally! "A bird does not learn to fly and nest by living in a cage. Likewise we cannot prepare young humans for the real world by denying and limiting their access to it." ~ Laurette Lynn “Birds don’t go to flight school.” ~ Linda Dobson "Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly." ~ John Lennon "Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when th…

The Truthiness of School

“And just like Gus, you can spend millions and millions of dollars upgrading the schools, introducing the best computer equipment, improving the physical plant. You can eliminate all testing, you can bring in all the best teachers, all the best administrators, you can introduce challenges during mealtime and none of these will impact the fact that the students are still in a state of captivity.” “Compulsory school environment induces learned helplessness, anxiety, depression. It also inhibits c…

Schools Are Prisons

Are there any differences between Schools vs Prisons? “School is Prison” “There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.” ~ William Glasser “We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, ‘to be free from freedom.’” ~ Eric Hoffer, [The True Believer] “The freedom the masses crave is not freedom of self-expression and self-realization, but freedom from the intolerable burde…

Living & Learning

Is there a better way to learn about REAL LIFE than by living it? Life is too short to spend nearly a quarter of our lives being schooled how to live. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde “When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for ‘life’ or ‘growing up uninstitutionalized’.” ~ Grace Llewellyn “You only have one life to live. Make sure it’s yours.” ~ Eleanor Brown “It’s not how long you live, but how well y…