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If the educational system can claim anything consistently it would be that it is masterful at evoking a destructive axis of boredom and anxiety accounting for the increasing levels of mental health problems in young people.
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― Jump, Fall, Fly, From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling
― Jump, Fall, Fly, From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling
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Compulsion – nonconsensual education – requires violence; it requires complete control over what students put into their brain, the people they are exposed to, the places they are authorized to be, and oftentimes, with free lunch programs, what food goes into their body. Compulsory systems are resentful of families who do not enforce homework or dress code policies; are reluctant to allow parents into its buildings except once or twice a year on special “open house” days; and fear parents who ch
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― A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
― A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School