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How long has Unschooling been around? Have there been any studies on
how Unschooled children end up doing in the work-force?

Natalie Hill
"Staying Home and Loving It!"
No Sales, No Parties, NO RISK!
www.LovingMyHomeBiz.com

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--- In [email protected], "homewithgabe"
<lovemyhomebiz@...> wrote:
>
> How long has Unschooling been around? Have there been any studies on
> how Unschooled children end up doing in the work-force?
>
> Natalie

Natalie, I understand that the paradigm shift away from Product
Oriented Parenting is a challenging one. Your questions reminds of the
quote: "We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget
that the child is already someone today. - Stacia Tauscher"

Respectfully,

Pat

Michelle Leifur Reid

On 10/11/06, homewithgabe <lovemyhomebiz@...> wrote:
> How long has Unschooling been around? Have there been any studies on
> how Unschooled children end up doing in the work-force?
>

Well, if you think about it children were unschooled (at least in most
merchant and peasant class) until the 18th or 19th centuries. School
didn't become mandatory until recent history. Prior to that school
was optional, expensive, private, and mostly run by the churches (at
least mass schools). Medieval schools were mostly following the
trivium or quadrium thought of education (memorization, rhetoric and
composition). But these schools were really for the elite. They were
very costly to attend. children were children until they were old
enough to become apprenticed. They would play and follow their
(mostly) mothers around mimicking or helping her work. Children
"worked" not because they were expected to but because it was a good
way for mothers to keep little hands busy while she tended to the
things she needed to do.

Once apprenticed (sometimes in their father's profession and sometimes
in someone else's) they learned those things they needed for their
profession. Sometimes it was something that the child was interested
in and sometimes it wasn't. Those that liked their profession did
well in business. Those that didn't, well, didn't. We have to
remember that their worlds were much smaller than our worlds. they
only knew what went on around them, usually within a one mile
circumference of their homes. They had heard of other cities and
towns and professions, but they were about as mythical as our thinking
of astronauts working on the space station. We've heard about it,
read about and seen pictures, but for the most part it is truly
mysterious to us.

In a way we are regressing :-)

Michelle

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-----Original Message-----
From: lovemyhomebiz@...

How long has Unschooling been around? Have there been any studies
on
how Unschooled children end up doing in the work-force?

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Unschooling was coined by John Holt, an educator and school reformer in
the 60s & 70s. He finally gave up on reforming schools when he found
they were inherently flawed and unreformable. He died in 1985.

But unschooling is how humans have learned for eons.

Unschooled children do quite well in the "work-force." No studies.

~Kelly

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