The education system is one of the primary conditioning mechanisms of society. The 150 year-old experiment called “school” has successfully convinced families (and society at large) that the prosperity and progress of children is very unlikely if they do not run the gauntlet of this pervasive matrix program.
However, if we simply remove the concept of school from our mental framework (the idea that an education can be ‘done’ to someone else from the top down, or that all people require the same factoids to thrive), we can take a more thoughtful look at original human design.
Human Design
Young humans were created with a deep drive to learn, grow, explore and experiment. This is innately built in the child’s very being, it is their divine design to help them navigate the human experience.
The reason we often fail to trust that this organically initiated directive ‘works’ is that we have been persuaded by society for centuries that humans couldn’t possibly self-direct successfully. After all, humans need authority, control, experts… they can’t possibly be trusted to be agents of their own trajectory and stewards of their own life force! The reality is that aducation-systems keep humans passive, where what is needed for true thriving is absolute ownership and agency over one’s own life journey at every stage.
Sovereign humans are a direct threat to dark agendas, and these nefarious forces fight to keep parents in perpetual fear that their children will not succeed without the state-parent guiding the developmental process of the child.
Family Life as the Optimal Learning Environment
Humans are naturally designed to be sovereign engineers of their own lives, and families are designed to be the sacred “green houses” to protect and nurture this natural life unfoldment.
Optimal life really is quite simple for the raising of sovereign, successful, compassionate, connected humans!
Live as if school did not exist!
The trick to moving into a new paradigm of delight-oriented, motivation-driven learning is to get rid of the paradigm of bad grades (and ‘good’ grades) once and for all! All grades, tests, report cards, and marks are social conditioning tools used to psychologically tether our children to a limited awareness of reality.
We, as the parents, are here to explore uncharted waters with our children and navigate new shores with them every day of our life together.
Unschooling
Unschooling is the current term used to describe a life that is lived naturally and freely away from coerced learning, and arbitrary curriculums. We learn the rhythms of life as if school did not exist in our reality.
Because, it doesn’t have to! It’s possible to live open to life and its natural feedback for our own unique custom growth experience.
Lead Yourself First
One of the most important aspects to consider, as a family moves into unschooling, is for parents to to first attend relentlessly to their own conditioning, expectations, and beliefs in the area of education and learning. Deep, honest, and open introspection is an absolute prerequisite to cultivating an exceptional unschooling experience with one’s family.
Questions for Parents to Explore
- What are my fears about unschooling?
- Where do these fears come from?
- What voices am I listening to when it comes to education?
- What voices am I listening to when it comes to raising children?
- How would I define a successful education?
- What about my past informs my beliefs about education?
- Where is my heart leading me?
- Where am I experiencing discomfort in this process?
- Do I trust my child to grow naturally?
- Do I trust myself to support them?
Dive Into the Process
Unschooling is first and foremost a journey of undoing… undoing layers and layers of presumption and programming. However, this is the necessary foundation for building a free and sovereign learning environment for our children, and not a step that can be skipped.
It is imperative that parents engage the process of inner exploration before jumping into an idealized new method of education. Unschooling is a lifestyle paradigm-shift that impacts everything moving forward… making the journey in some ways terrifying, and yet, absolutely the most exhilarating adventure your family could ever undertake!