Alan & Brenda Leonard

on 10/8/02 00:19, Sandra wrote:

> What unschoolers do will eventually change the schools.
and
> But homeschooling is not better than anything in the world. School can be a
> haven and a place of light. It's all relative.

Yes. This is what I hope for. I can't believe that everyone should
homeschool; everyone's situation is different, and they have to make (and
live with) their own choices.

But the future, in my dreams and hopes, is that school itself could change.
That it could be more like unschooling, with more freedom, trust,
independence, creativity, flexability, etc. It may not happen in my
lifetime, but the schools didn't become what they are in a few years, so
changing them will probably take a while, too.

brenda

Tia Leschke

>
> But the future, in my dreams and hopes, is that school itself could
change.
> That it could be more like unschooling, with more freedom, trust,
> independence, creativity, flexability, etc. It may not happen in my
> lifetime, but the schools didn't become what they are in a few years, so
> changing them will probably take a while, too.

I started hoping that they would change when I was 14 and read Summerhill.
That was in 1962. I'm still waiting.
Tia