Unschooler: one who learns from life and love and great books and late morning conversations and big projects and eccentric uncles and mountains and mistakes and volunteering and starry nights - not from dull textbooks and sedative lectures and interfering homework.
From: The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Grace Llewellyn
So how do you earn the college degree you want by learning from the world, instead of at a regular college?
Explore the links to your left and the boxes below.
Apprenticeships
Hands-on experience working with someone knowledgable and in the field is invaluable.
Offer to help them in exchange for lessons. Scrub toilets, do paperwork, keep their supplies neat and orderly - in exchange for them sharing their knowledge and showing you how to do the skill.
Although your family is probably not going to object when you use them as guinea pigs for massage techniques that you're learning out of a book, it's a good idea to work with professionals, too. They give you a broader scope of things, and may help you decide if you really want to continue in that chosen career.
Books
Hey, books are great! So many things can be learned from books.
Poke around this site for good book suggestions. Some Outdoor related books are also listed on the Outdoor Rec. page, located HERE
One Excellent book to read about unschooling is "The Teenage Liberation Handbook" By Grace Llewellyn.
Borrow books whenever possible. Borrow them from your library, or if they don't have the ones you're looking for, get them through a free inter-library loan. Ask all your friends and neighbors if you can borrow their books.
Or, become filthy rich and buy your entire neighborhood bookstore. :-)
