Learning doesn’t need permission.
I was homeschooled. I learned without bells, classrooms, or age-based rules. Now I’m planning to homeschool—and this site explains why freedom in learning works better than the school factory ever did.
Why the school model breaks learning
The public school system was never designed to optimize for human intelligence. It was designed for compliance. By batching children by age and ringing bells every 50 minutes, we train the curiosity out of them before they even hit puberty.
When I was homeschooled, I realized that learning isn't a race you run against your neighbors; it's a relationship you build with the world.
What freedom-based learning looks like
Unschooling isn't about "doing nothing." It's about doing everything that matters. It's about kitchen tables turned into labs, libraries turned into offices, and the whole world turned into a classroom.
Looking back now, the skills that made me successful as an adult weren't the ones I would have learned in a desk. They were the ones I learned while I was free to follow a thread of curiosity until it became a skill.
