Rue just posted this razor-sharp quote from John Holt on the unschooling boards:
So many people have said to me, ‘If we didn’t make children do things, they wouldn’t do anything.’ Even worse, they say, ‘If I weren’t made to do things, I wouldn’t do anything.’
It is the creed of a slave.
When people say that terrible thing about themselves, I say, ‘You may believe that, but I don’t believe it. You didn’t feel that way about yourself when you were little. Who taught you to feel that way?’ To a large degree, it was school.
~ John Holt, How Children Fail
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I don't think it was school for me. It was parents and religion. School was actually pretty laid back in comparison to those two other institutions in my life.
When we had our eldest in pre-school, another mom blew her stack at me because I didn't make my daughter go if she didn't feel like it. "HOW", this other mom raged, "will she ever learn to do things she doesn't want to do???" How, indeed!
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