Unschooling is a form of homeschooling where children learn through their natural interests and goals. Parents act as mentors and advisors, but the child has freedom to choose what to learn. Real-world experience is prioritized over curriculum. Unschooling was coined by John Holt, who believed in school reform. Homeschoolers are viewed positively by colleges.
Drop-out is a learning method sometimes used by people who have chosen to home-school their children. Early school leaving, also known as natural learning or child-directed learning, focuses on the child’s natural interests and goals to create a learning environment in which children educate themselves. Homeschooling differs from the unschooling method in that homeschooling follows a set schedule, with parents replacing traditional teachers as mentors and advisors. Non-schooling, on the other hand, gives the child the freedom to learn what he considers important or useful. Parents, for the most part, stay away or only give general advice when asked.
In out-of-school education, children learn through hands-on experience, which includes everything from visiting libraries and museums to reading books, asking questions, and doing research online. In non-schooling, real-world experience takes priority over the curriculum, as advocates of the method believe that given freedom, children will choose to learn. Take for example a child’s interest in computers. He could research how they work and what they can do (science), who invented them (biography), what the first computers were like (history). Or it could take him to study computer programming.
The term unschooling was first used by John Holt, an educator who fought hard for school reform and eventually came up with the idea of homeschooling as the best educational option. Holt is the author of many books on education, including the bestsellers How Children Fail (1964), How Children Learn (1967), and The Underachieving School (1968). Holt spokesperson for the unschooling method, even going so far as to create the magazine Growing Without Schooling.
Dropping out is not a deterrent to a college education. In fact, many colleges view homeschoolers as self-motivated and “in love with learning,” making them ideal candidates for acceptance. In lieu of a high school diploma, out-of-school children can submit a portfolio to their college of choice, including CLEP Achievement Test scores, samples of past work, letters of recommendation, out-of-school achievements, etc.
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