Sandra Dodd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Real #School #Sleep
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Children #Creating #Environment
Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Thinking #Talking #Acting
School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Kids #School #World
Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.
-- Sandra Dodd

#School #Learning #People
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Order #Accepting #Questioning
When a child's life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people, and places, he will learn. When he feels safe and loved, he'll learn. When parents begin to recover from their own ideas of what learning should look like (what they remember from school) they will begin a new life of natural learning, too.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Children #School #Sight
If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Children #Vision #Important
When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Children #Educational #Knowing
Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the airâ€”itâ€™s in and around us.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Air #Environment #Rich
People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck is this?'
-- Sandra Dodd

#Thinking #People #Laughing
The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.
-- Sandra Dodd

#Children #School #Laughing

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