“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. You don’t learn those things in school.”ĥ.

“Our rapidly moving, information-based society badly needs people who know how to find facts rather than memorize them, and who know how to cope with change in creative ways. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”Ĥ. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.”ģ. “Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret that secrets can only be known in orderly successions and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. Knowledge is not something a learner absorbs, but something a learner creates.” – George CourosĢ. I think these “Unschooling Quotes” do an excellent job of challenging what we think education really means and exploring what kind of education is needed to be indispensable in our rapidly changing world. With life, society and the workplace changing so much today, I find that the philosophy of unschooling can give us insight into how we can come better self-directed learners and prepare ourselves for a future that we can’t predict. One of the more interesting schools of thought I have come across is Unschooling, which is an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning.

I spend a lot of time reading about different approaches to education and learning. Schooling is often an important step in our lives but the real education that makes us successful in life takes place outside the controlled environment of a classroom. We all learn in different ways and an essential part of the process of learning is gaining an understanding of ourselves and how we learn most effectively.

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