deschooling

• Once the legalities are covered, I encourage families to try at least a period of what is called "deschooling." —  www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
• It took about a year of deschooling for her to get to that point. —  An Unschooling Life
• I have just done reading Ivan Illich's book "deschooling society", it's about how schools aren't about education, They are about engineering the working lower classes to follow procedure, routine and instructions and to confuse process with substance; as in, we confuse the efficiency of the police with safety, We mistake a hospital's ability to meet targets with health care and, fundamentally, we mistake exam grades with a students ability to understand the subject. —  Digital Point Forums
• I first heard the term "deschooling" five years ago on the Homeschool Association of California (HSC) Yahoo! —  The Life Without School Community Blog
• Over time, I found the deschooling discussion to be, in fact, the most valuable of them all. —  The Life Without School Community Blog

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