11 academic benefits of unschooling
Many people ask, “How do kids pick up 12 grades of knowledge if they don’t go to school or homeschool"” The answer is that children acquire knowledge through play, projects, volunteering, field trips and everyday life. They don’t need to “catch up” because they are learning in a different way and much of it is invisible. When they get older, they may switch to a different track; one where all that accumulated knowledge is proven with gradable output such as exams, essays, presentations, and research projects. Here are 11 academic benefits that unschooling provides:
1. Critical thinking is encouraged
Large bureaucracies do not handle questioning well. They operate, by their very nature, on the contingent of obedience. If there are too many disrupters, they get bogged down and lose time and efficiency. Critical thinkers are disruptive because they interrupt the prescribed flow of content delivery. Classroom dissenters are often dealt with by being sent to detention or shamed into silence.
All children should be critical thinkers. They should respectfully question everything they don?t understand, from content to rules and regulations. Critical thinking is about gathering information, exposing embedded values and assumptions, breaking down data, and analyzing arguments.
Unschooling promotes questions without punishment.
2. Problem solving is encouraged
When schools have problems, teachers, principals, and support staff are expected to s...
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