Dayna Martin delivers a powerful, passionate speech about unschooling, and
the negative aspects of public schools.
Some excerpts:
'We are in a day and age where schools are really becoming obsolete. In fact
when they started out they were one of the few places where you could obtain
information and gather information, but nowadays they have to be one of the
most boring places to even continue an education - the way if teaching just
with books for example. We live in such a book worshipping culture, there
are so many better ways for a child to learn. Om not anti-book, we love
reading, its part of our lives, but books are just one of many ways of
learning. I think schools have such an old way of teaching.'
'Schools are more like prison than the real world. They are unnatural
settings, school is NOTHING Like the real world. Everyone has to eat
together, you get moved around by bells, you cant even get out of your seat
without permission or go to the bathroom - basic human functions that you
don't even have the right to do without getting someone's permission.
that's NOT the real world.'
'I don't mean to sound negative, but I just want to empower people to know
that you have options. Too many people spend their days doing things they
don't like and it's a really sad childhood. All these things from peer
pressure to bullies - anything negative you are dealing with doesn't even
have to be. Its not like the real world, and I think that people take all
those things that happen to people at school as necessary to prepare them
for the real world, but its not true, its kind of an excuse, to keep
someone there. In the real world, if someone is bugging you, like a bully
for example you just tell the police, or you leave, or you tell your boss.
You never ever have to be in a situation in the 'real world' in life where
someone is tormenting you without you being able to stop it. School is the
only place where people look the other way and its so unfair to kids. Its
like this false freedom - you don't have freedom behind the walls, its not a
life that you should have.'
