On the wildness of children – “our schools still embody the fear of children’s “wildness:”  the fear that without constant control, constant measurement, and the constant threat of punishment, they will “run wild,” fail to learn, become anti-social, harm themselves or others, become incompetent, helpless adults.”

Peter Gray on The Gardener and The Carpenter – “Gopnik describes research showing that deliberate teaching can, at least sometimes, reduce the amount that children learn about an object, because the teaching tends to inhibit them from exploring the object themselves and thereby prevents them from learning any more about it than what the teacher had pointed out.”

The foundations of unschooling – “Finding a mentor, teacher, class, book, Internet site, or person who can explain or help our children do what they want to know is not that hard nor does it require a degree in education. Any parent can do this if they want to, and you will get better at it the more you ask. Eventually, your children will be doing it on their own, getting their own books out of the library, asking to take lessons or do travel, because you have modelled this behaviour for them. You help your children learn about how to navigate the world by doing your learning in front of them.”