Celine comments

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unschooling-Teenagers-Experience-Maisie-Pine-ebook/dp/B06XQMZJQQ/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1531783185&sr=8-14&keywords=unschooling

This is the story of a home-schooled teenager who speaks for herself about the merits of home-schooling.

I find it very sad to read some of the negative comments about homeschooling. I am fifteen and have a high standard of literacy and numeracy. I am well-educated and well-informed and very curious about the world. My family are radical unschoolers. In other words, rather than follow a set curriculum or a planned schedule, my mother allowed me to completely follow my own interests at home. If I wanted, I could choose to read all day. I learned a lot from doing research on the internet. One of my interests is virtual trading on the stock market which I'd like to turn into a career some day. Human beings made progress long before schools existed. Real education is about exploration, finding things out, developing ideas. None of this requires a school. It does require an enquiring mind and curiosity about the world. I wrote a book about my own experience of learning at home. Before assuming that children who are schooled (or unschooled) in this radical way will turn out to be uneducated or moronic, please keep an open-mind and check it out:-

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unschooling-Teenagers-Experience-Maisie-Pine-ebook/dp/B06XQMZJQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495288034&sr=8-1&keywords=maisie+la+pine