We Don T Need No Education Summary

We Don't Need No Education Summary In the magazine article We Don't Need No Education, father, Ben Hewitt, explains his reasoning, from personal experience and outside sources, on the decision of not sending his children to a public education system, but instead choosing "unschooling". He begins the article with what seems to be a child's start to a school day, only that when it's time for the supposed child to get on the bus to go to school, they remain inside their home as their unschooling education begins. The author explains the concept of unschooling as his children having "almost total autonomy over their days," getting to decide what they want to know. How Hewitt explains that he came to the decision to unschool his children is based off his own experience in, what would be to us, a normal structured education, that he himself "left public school because [he] was bored to the point of anger," and that learning in that environment "felt abstract and standardized." Hewitt later explains how education restricts a child's learning to only the state required material which ultimately hinders their creativity, curiousity, and passion to learn. …show more content…
They tested using material that a Waldorf school, alternative education schooling, which proved ineffective as that it would require Hewitt's then five year old son to remain seated and still. What Hewitt and his wife discovered when they "liberated [themselves] from [the] concept of what [their] son's education should look like" is how their son best learns information, stating that " the moment we quit trying to teach our son anything was the moment he started really