It's not that unschoolers ignore the difference between entertainment and education. It's that we come to see that it's a false division.
For educators, entertainment is a sugar coating that can be put on the important stuff to make it easier to get it in.
For unschoolers, that division doesn't make sense. For unschoolers the division is interested in and not (yet) interested in.
Engagement, joy, interest, fascination are all indications a child is making connections between ideas. Unschoolers come to realize that the connections are not just the important part of learning but the only real learning.
photo by Elaine Santana
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