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| Unschooling Benefits | Unschooling is a home school method that is becoming increasingly popular. Unschooling allows children to decide what they learn. This helps keep them interested in education because they are learning about the subjects that are of interest.
Many parents who chose this method believe education is not something to be practiced from 8 to 3 five days a week. Instead, they try to show their children that education can be a way of life. Children who are “unschooled” are also given the teaching reign and the opportunity to learn by themselves instead of being taught. Promoters of this method emphasize that unschooling does not equal uneducated and that children raised with this philosophy have a greater appreciation for learning.
Home schooling provides a unique opportunity to pace away from systems and methods and develop independent ideas out of real knowledge, where the child is really in search of knowledge. Unschooling encourages independence, self-motivation, and the greater resistance to peer pressure, a lifelong joy of learning and sense of self-confidence.
The unschooled children direct their own education. They select how, when, and what they learn. Grades, grade levels, semesters, testing, and compulsory lessons simply do not enter into their experiences. Unschooled children simply read a lot, play on the computer, visit the library, observe nature and follow their current interests. Their parents do something as facilitators and advisors rather than teachers. Emphasis is done on providing an environment rich with opportunities for experimenting and exploring, along with a wealth of resources and support. The starting point of unschooling is a natural curiosity of children, and they are allowed to follow their own interests and for as long as they desire.
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