Born to Learn Quotes

“My goal has always been to inspire in them an ongoing love of learning. To awaken a feeling where their work is their passion, so that they never feel burdened or trapped by meeting their material needs, but instead thrive and experience wealth doing what they love while making a positive contribution to the world. To me that is the truest definition of success.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Born To Learn

“The primary difference I see is that unschooling is an invitation to awaken and ennoble capabilities that exist within the child. Where traditional schooling is to fill the child with facts that we, as a collective have decided upon.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Born To Learn

“I simply stepped out of the way and maintained my courage and my position in the face of constant disagreement, voiced opinion and attack. I held true and I stood my ground. I maintained my convictions and my commitment to allowing them to live in the kingdom of childhood. I protected them from outside influence and allowed their imaginations to soar. I instilled a lifelong love of learning in them and I shared my passion for reading. I allowed them to choose what they wanted to study and I provided the resources for them to delve in, unguided and undisturbed for however long they needed to gather what they believed to be enough understanding to satisfy their own personal drive.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Born To Learn

“This is the new paradigm. Everything is changing! You cannot deny that the world is changing at such a fast pace and that what the children learn this year is already becoming outdated next year.

The children who are allowed freedom to pursue their own interests (also known as the “rebels and troublemakers”) are creating the business structures of this new paradigm.

You know who I am talking about. Steve Jobs, Richard Branson…”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Born To Learn: Real World Learning Through Unschooling and Immersion

“Many of the world’s greatest geniuses all had in common that they were pulled from the school environment. They were freed to discover the undiscovered. They had the imagination to ‘see’ a different way and the drive to try to build what they had seen.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Born To Learn