Sandra Dodd

Teachers get paid money to keep kids in a room and attempt to
implement a curriculum.
Homeschoolers who choose to use a school-at-home method of some sort
do the same thing, at home, for their own children, and they like to
think of themselves as teachers because they believe learning can
only happen when someone does what a teacher says.

Natural learning, whether in a classroom or in an unschooling
situation, has to do with the discovery and analysis of ideas and
facts and reactions and connections by people who are learning in
their own ways. In a classroom or alternative school, the
"teachers" (who still get paid to keep kids in a room or some known
area of containment) are facilitators--they help the kids make
discoveries and help them clarify their ideas and find more
resources. In unschooling, the parent facilitates learning day and
night for years without days off. And when unschooling becomes well
integrated into a family's life, there's not a difference between the
parenting actions and the facilitation actions.

"Facilitate" means to make something easier for someone else.
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