Independent Study Informs You, Not Conforms You
Independent study :
· informs you, not conforms you.
· Encourages freedom, development and creativity:
· Life is not meant to be lived at a desk.
· Independent study can be done in anytime frame you please whether that is an hour a day or a decision made by yourself to finish early by committing to a regiment of your own standards.
· We should decide where our life takes us.
· Being an independent student allows you to carry your classroom with you and to not miss out on grand opportunities such as travelling or equally important things like time with family and friends just because those plans do not abide by the school system’s schedule.
· Development of necessary ‘habits’ and friendships come naturally.
· With independent study you have the availability for a full-time job, giving you the skills to provide for yourself and adapt to the habits of time management and communication with others.
· Sculpt your own brain.
In independent study you learn through creativity.
Nothing ever has to be in cookie cutter form, not your ideas or yourself. And you never have to deal with the politics of peer pressure like the desire to ‘skip’ or cheat.
Not to say there are not some valuable things to be learned in a class…if you choose to become a brain surgeon. But, I myself was homeschooled until the third grade and then learned all I know through the experience of life. And when I made the choice to take classes towards an advancement in my knowledge for myself I was placed in grade twelve so how did I learn eight grades myself? Because I taught myself what is important to me.
I still made great friends, had rumors spread, my heart broken and so many other things that came along with attending school. So, when movies state that independent students are “homeschooled jungle freaks” they are only proving that the education system has failed society by closing their minds to alternative ways.
by Eco Dzaman
