![small wildflowers in the bottom of a glass bowl](https://sandradodd.com/albums/y421/JustAddLight/2017plus/AlexPolikowskyFlower.jpg)
Many things we have been told and assumed were natural human behavior seem now to be natural side effects of schooling.
School promises a child that if he's good, someday he can take his place in the world. They're still making him that promise when he's a young adult: "Someday…"
Unschooled children are in the world from an early age. When they reach adulthood they have a carriage and calm that I believe came from having being respected as people for many years. It's hard to describe, but impossible to ignore.
[page 264 (or 305— "Young Adults") of The Big Book of Unschooling
photo by Alex Polikowsky
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