Grace Llewellyn Quotes

#1. No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

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#2. When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

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#3. Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age of 18 or 21, yet, 'minors' are one of the most oppressed groups of people in the world, and certainly the most discriminated against legally.

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#4. Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

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#5. If you had always been free to learn, you would follow your natural tendency to find out as fully as possible about the things that interest you, cars or stars. We are born with what they call "love of learning"

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#6. Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

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#7. The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

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#8. In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it ... and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

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