The simplest description is that Unschooling means a way of bringing up children using free play and child-directed activity to develop the child's own individual talents and creativity by supportively following up the child's own interests – without coercion, compulsion, manipulation, regimentation, constant testing and grading and rank-ordering, or top-down authoritarianism.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom
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