Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his … - Grace Llewellyn

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Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

Grace Llewellyn

Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you, you must welcome them, think about them, find somewhere for your mind to organize them, and remember them. Your learning is your job, not your teacher's job. And all you need to start with is desire. You don't need a schoolteacher to get knowledge - you can get it from looking at the world, from watching films, from conversations, from reading, from asking questions, from experience.

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The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

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Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously. . . learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids.

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Learning is not a product of teaching. kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

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In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. . . and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

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When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

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