Comments on: How School Breeds Fear and Anxiety https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Saying No to School Stress, and Yes to Childhood - Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-168427 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:26:11 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-168427 […] If you want to make sure 30 children all learn the same thing in the same period of time, you’re probably going to rely on obedience. How do you do that? You make them afraid. […]

]]> By: Sara @ Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-145974 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:49:22 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-145974 In reply to Frank.

This is a blog about unschooling!

]]> By: Frank https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-145705 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:32:38 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-145705 If only everyone had the time, money and ability to home/unschool their kids. Sadly they don’t so what we need is viable alternatives – please talk about alternative ideas rather than being down on the current systems continually. So many people have no choice and sadly you don’t make them feel better about themselves – real, actual ideas of what else would be much more productive. I wish I could do differently for my kids but even paying doesn’t seem to bring any alternative that isn’t mired in dogma of its own.

]]> By: Rebecca https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-132839 Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:49:53 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-132839 Thank you for this article. I can identify with the fear and anxiety from my own experience as a child and also watching it as a teacher. Have you come across any evidence or research to back this up? I would love to be able to read and share with my family so they can understand more about where I am coming from with the anti-school sentiments 🙂

]]> By: What Unschoolers Are Not Learning – Learning and Unlearning https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-108930 Sat, 17 Aug 2019 04:59:59 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-108930 […] haven’t been conditioned to need bribery or coercion to learn. Their intrinsic motivation hasn’t been dampened. They haven’t even learned there is a […]

]]> By: What Unschoolers Are Not Learning | Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/school-breeds-fear-anxiety/#comment-105178 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:55:17 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17525#comment-105178 […] haven’t been conditioned to need bribery or coercion to learn. Their intrinsic motivation hasn’t been dampened. They haven’t even learned […]

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