Mustard Seed said:
Learning happens through instruction, aquired freedom, aquired responsibility, opposition, support, supresion and release. Pure freedom being placed as the primary, or only, key aspect in learning is a fool's paradigm. Learning is the PROCESS of PROVIDING FREEDOM. People are made free only as fast as they gain knowledge. Individuals given up to lives of utter freedom and disconect in the name of learning never really acheive freedom and never actualy connect to reality.
Unnecessary made up and contrived jargon and wordiness is the hallmark of the school teacher. College text books used in teachers colleges are bursting with them. It's actually comical to browse through one. They take "wordy" to a whole new level. It's like a little kid trying to sound like a chemistry text book!
You think that by freedom I mean, "release someone into the woods and abandon them". :dizzy:
They have an even harder time learning to walk if they ar never given items on which to lean, tools or exercises in which to walk, and examples of walking.
On the planet I live on, people watch as their babies learn to crawl and then learn to walk - it's this process they do on their own. There is no curriculum. There is no homework. There are no exercises or drills or grades. Just kids playing, parents playing with their kids, the scenario I thought every last human being was familiar with! Some ppl. attempted to employ "walkers", teaching them to walk before they learned to crawl, but that was revealed to actually be harmful, just as making a left handed person write with their right hand, and vice versa, actually harms the nerves of their arms.
Put another way, there is no coercion involved.
You can set someone 'free' and they will forever be dependent on an artificial system of support unless they are provided the experience, access to insight, and models from which to gain those attributes that a lasting freedom demands exist in the individual who wishes to be free.
I use the word, "supportive". It takes a lot less time to type. What do unschooling parents do? They're supportive. That's all. It's natural. When someone needs your help, you help them. Isn't that easy enough to intuit? I feel like if I left you to unschool, after telling you that there isn't the coercion of schooling, that you'd sit by and ignore a kid who can't reach the faucet, smarmily commenting that "you're learning in freedom now, you're on yer own" leaving the kid to mutter to himself, "dumba**".
No child, left alone after birth, will survive.
Wow. That's what you think the phrase, "learn in freedom" means!
No child, forever deprived of interaction with the core of a community, social system or economy
In other words, kept inside a school building all day.
, will ever be able to become an effective functioning member of such a community, a society or economy.
Unless it's the kind of society that requires most of all that you obey orders; which is the only thing you learn how to do in school. But employers don't want that - hence the impetus to offer classes, CLASSES, in critical thinking skills! How do you turn someone off of something? Force them to do it. Hence the loss of interest in math and science, and oh, look, America is having an increasing problem with science illiteracy. Unless we become as regimented as, say, Japan, we won't be able to compete. But first we have to shed our "Americanness"; that left over sense of liberty from Thomas Jefferson, before we can become complete robots (a society stricken with porn addiction -like manga- rampant alchoholism, child and teen and adult suicide... but quite economically formidable with all the other robot countries). Businessmen see the easy way out, making a society of robots - and people forget that America became the most advanced nation the world had ever seen in under 100 years after it's birth because people were free, not because they toiled like automatons in factories and education centers. That's not the recipe for innovation and real work.
Too much too soon?
