Top 12 Quotes by Sandra Dodd

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

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

Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.312, Lulu.com

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 will learn. When parents begin to recover from their own ideas of what learning should look like (what they remember from school), then they begin a new life of natural learning, too.

Sandra Dodd

Children, School, Sight

"Learning for Fun: Interview with Sandra Dodd – Unschooling Mom for 22 Years!". Interview with Rashmie Jaaju, www.mommy-labs.com. August 22, 2012.

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

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

"Learning all the time". Sandra Dodd's personal website, sandradodd.com.

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

Sandra Dodd

Air, Environment, Rich

Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.320, Lulu.com

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

Sandra Dodd

School, Kids, World

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, Fabric Of Life

Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.325, Lulu.com

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

Learning, School, People

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