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Natural Education

Humans are natural learners!!
They are like this for life - especially if childhood curiosity survives intact.
That is why Natural Education = Lifelong Learning.

Why do we need schools?
Tribal people are experts in survival skills and in local conservation.
We do not need to be educated in schools to walk or speak a language fluently.
Our ability to love is largely shaped by our experiences in the womb, at birth, in early childhood, by our extended family/village.

So why do we need schools?
Schools seem to be necessary to make people conform to unnatural systems.
Schools can be used by states to control their people. And by ideologies to construct the world.

So, it seems that we do NOT need them...
Yes, the world is a school.
We go to the University of Life.

Natural learning is not about being enslaved by Capitalism and Government.
Natural learning is about living harmoniously with Earth and Nature.

Here we explore these issues:-

On wooden decking is a giant book of fairy tales. The book is upright and open. A young woman on the decking looks at herself -or a twin - in the book. The twin urges her to follow. The twin ascends a forest path in the light. The young woman can step into nature...

"He who would understand the Book of Nature
must walk its pages with his feet." (Paracelsus)

Resources and Background

My two sons (now both basically adults) have been home educated.
My favourite book on education is Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education with or without School by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver. Also see here.
Other books I highly recommend are: The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith; The Unschooling Unmanual edited by Jan and Jason Hunt.
Life Learning Magazine [The fantastic resource of Wendy Priesnitz since 1976].
Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life (YouTube, 2010?) [1h15m24s video].
The case for unschooling (Tyshia Ingram, Vox, 2020) [Written during Covid-19].
Philosophies of How Children Learn (Peggy O'Mara, 2020).
This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth (Nemonte Nenquimo, The Guardian, 2020).

Also see:-

Natural Family Living

Natural Pregnancy

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