There are so many misconceptions about unschooling I thought I would devote an entire article to those pesky notions that plague all unschoolers at some point or another. If another person comes up to me and says that children can’t learn without being pushed, I will not only scream, I will run madly into the night, which of course would only give rise to the misconception that unschoolers love to run screaming into the night.
人们对非学校教育误解之多，我觉得我都可以就这些时不时折磨非学校教育者的烦人问题专门写篇文章。如果有人来跟我说，不督促孩子前进，他们压根不可能学习，我不仅会尖叫，还会在黑夜狂奔，这肯定又会给别人一个错误印象，觉得非学校教育者喜欢在夜里呐喊狂奔。
Part of the dilemma, as I see it, is people can judge a group by meeting one person from that group. They might decide, for instance, after meeting a family whose kids are playing Nintendo during “school hours” that video games are all that family does and that video games are all unschoolers do, period. They don’t stop to think that possibly the children were taking a break from designing a solar car, creating a replica of the Mona Lisa or building a teepee in the back yard. Maybe Mom is not feeling so hot or maybe the kids like to play video games and the wise mother, feeling that Nintendo will help her son’s poor hand eye coordination, lets them play on! Then the person who finds them playing the video games, who probably was against unschooling in the first place, tars all unschoolers with the same brush and makes a blanket statement, “All unschoolers do is allow their children to play video games and watch TV all day. That is, after all what children will do if not pushed.”
我觉得这种困境的部分原因在于人们会通过某个群体中的某个人来判断该群体。比如，在遇到孩子们在“学校时间”玩任天堂的家庭之后，人们会认为那家人就会玩任天堂，而电玩就是所有非学校教育者所做的事情。他们不会停下来想，可能孩子们刚刚设计了太阳能小汽车，临摹了蒙娜丽莎的画，或者在后院搭了帐篷，现在休息一会。也许母亲节奏不是那么快，或者孩子们想打电游，而这位聪明的母亲觉得任天堂有助于改善儿子很差的手眼协调，干脆让他们玩个够！发现他们打电玩的人，可能本来就反对非学校教育，然后就给所有非学校教育者抹黑，总结性发言说，“非学校教育者就是让他们的孩子整天打电玩、看电视。毕竟，这些都是如果我们不督促，孩子们就会做的事。”
Other Unschooling Fallacies:
关于非学校教育的其他谬误：
Unschooled children are completely responsible for their own education and parents never help their children learn.
非学校教育儿童对自己的教育完全负责，家长从不帮助孩子学习。
This one not only makes me laugh, but really dishonors all those unschoolers who run their children to classes, find mentors for them, help them when their children ask for it, spend hours at the library, carefully choose books for reading aloud, take countless field trips, and play tons of games with their children. Unschooling parents are very involved with their children’s education…… they just don’t run it.
这不仅令我发笑，也非常不尊重所有非学校教育者，他们带着孩子到处上课，为他们寻找导师，当孩子需要时，就提供帮助，花很多时间在图书馆，精挑细选朗读的书目，进行无数次实地考察，和孩子们玩数不尽的游戏。非学校教育者对孩子的教育非常投入……他们只是不自己代劳而已。
Unschooling parents are too lazy to take the time to sit down and teach their children.
非学校教育家长懒惰到不肯花时间坐下来教孩子。
See above answer.
参见上述回答。
Unschooling families have no discipline in their homes.
非学校教育者家里没有规矩。
Some do have discipline in their homes and some don’t. Just like any other family. I think this misconception stems from the fact that many people think if a child has choices in their education that they get to do whatever they want whenever they want to and they will always make bad choices. Child rearing techniques are as varied in unschoolers as they are in any other group of people.
有些人家里有纪律，有些没有。就像任何其他家庭一样。我想这个误解的根源在于很多人认为如果孩子对自己的教育有选择权，他们可以任何时候做自己想做的一切，而他们总做错误选择。非学校教育者抚养孩子的方法千差万别，和任何其他人群一样。
Unschoolers never use text books.
非学校教育者从不用课本。
This is another totally false assumption. Unschooling children and teens use text books quite a bit, it’s the parents who don’t use text books. The difference being, of course, that parents do not use them to teach…..the children use them to learn. Major difference.
这纯属误解。非学校教育者儿童和青少年用课本不算少，不用课本的是父母。区别在于，家长不用课本教孩子…….孩子用课本学习。差别大着呢。
You might be able to unschool young children successfully but you can’t unschool teens.
可能你能够成功地对幼儿进行非学校教育，但不能对青少年进行非学校教育。
Teens are at the very best age to unschool. The possibilities for teenagers in regard to volunteer opportunities, internships and focused learning is endless. Younger children often have difficulties getting adults to take them seriously in giving them jobs or volunteer positions. Teens generally don’t have that problem. The world opens up for them and this is a time when they can really concentrate on their interests, taking advantage of the freedom most adults don’t have.
青少年才是非学校教育的最佳年龄。青少年的义工机会、实习机会、集中学习的可能性无穷无尽。年级再小一点的孩子通常很难让成人严肃地对待他们，给他们工作或义工职位。青少年一般没有这个问题。世界对他们开放，而且这是他们可以真正集中精力关注自己的兴趣的时间，充分利用大多数成人没有的自由。
Unschoolers are hippies, eat granola and sprouts, and wear sandals.
非学校教育者是嬉皮士，吃麦片和新鲜蔬菜，穿拖鞋。
Like any other people group unschoolers are diverse in both our dress and eating habits. We are also diverse in where we live, our jobs, and our various faiths.
像任何其他人群，非学校教育者的穿着打扮和饮食习惯都多姿多彩。我们的住处、职业和信仰也都千差万别，丰富多彩。
Though I find these fallacies to be laughable, I also find them rather frightening. Whenever you lump a group of people together and make generalizations about them you are practicing bigotry. From bigotry you will get discrimination. Unfortunately, much of the discrimination that unschoolers receive is from within the homeschool movement itself and espoused by some homeschool leaders. I care not whether these leaders agree with how my children are educated, I care very much that I retain the right to educate them as I feel best. Only by bursting these fallacies will people begin to understand what unschoolers are trying to achieve.
虽然我觉得这些谬误很可笑，我也觉得它们相当可怕。当你把一群人划在一起，对他们进行归纳总结，你就是固执己见。从固执己见，你将得到歧视。很不幸，非学校教育者受到的大多数歧视来自居家教育本身，而且得到了某些居家教育领军人物的煽风点火。我不在乎这些领袖是否同意我的孩子如何受教，我非常在意保留教育他们的权利。只有打破这些谬误，人们才能开始了解非学校教育者到底想获得什么样的结果。
