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Deschool Yourself  is a collection of unschooling/homeschooling articles with the purpose to educate and to unite.

This blog was created in 2011 to help people shake the school mentality that defines learning in many false, distorted ways. After 12+ years of attending school, there are certain ideas that have been impacted into our brains of what learning looks like. Namely, school teaches us that learning is dull, hard work that must be forced on us; that it only takes place behind a desk with a textbook, in a certain institution, and with a teacher to show us the way; among many other erroneous things. 

To deschool yourself means to liberate yourself of these untruths. There are many fabulous, insightful books that disprove the method of learning that is used in school, and even declares that it is harmful. One such book is The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith. This book shows us that learning is often inconspicuous, is not hard work, and happens just by living a joyful, active, passionate, and engaged life.

This book, as well as many others, shows that learning is so much more than what we have been taught in school, that it is not an abstraction from life, that full healthy learning is done out of the will of the learner holistically in any location when the body, spirit, and brain are all in motion, engaged, and connected. 

I hope this website helps you on your path to deschool yourself and become a very wise owl, indeed. 
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