Bonnie Bedford, May 26, 1953 - July 11, l997
My Personal Definitions:
"Schooling": the process by which a predetermined (and often arbitrary) set of learning goals/outcomes is reached using predetermined (and often arbitrary) standardized curriculum administered by an authority figure to target groups of students sorted largely by chronological age."Unschooling": the process by which a person acquires specific and non-specific skills and information as determined by the needs and interests of the person(s)doing the learning and by methods suited to and chosen by those doing the learning. A lot of unschooling learning is intrinsic, and some of the learning is often also accomplished by more "traditional" methods, but the what, how, when ,where , and why are determined by the learner and his/her goals rather than a bureaucrat in a government office who has never met my kids.
Unschooling is the process by which an individual learns to take responsibility for his/her learning and his/her life, which should (ideally) be one and the same.
