#18 Unschooling – The Post Secondary Level Pt. 2

#18 Unschooling – The Post Secondary Level Pt. 2

From Léo's Insights by Léo's Insights

April 28, 2026 · 4 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the advantages of unschooling over traditional schooling in preparing children for their future.

Although few people give the future of a newborn child much thought, as they grow and mature there is a greater temptation to want to assure that future. Worth repeating is that parents are not responsible for the children’s future other than to prepare them in a general way so as not to limit their possibilities. This is where unschooling has an enormous advantage over any kind of school. Understanding the homogenizing nature of school allows you to see how unschooling is so much better at preparing students for the future: we develop each child in keeping with who they are as compared to what schools do which is to move them toward what they “should” be. There is a very big difference between these two objectives. Considering that there is no faith involved in school-based approaches to education, it is easy to see that their aim is to develop children toward what man desires rather than what God has ordained. This is why the biggest outcome of a twelve-year school education is likely to be generally confusion. Not so with the unschooled who have been loved as they are, encouraged to learn what interests them, and entrusted with the responsibility for their lives. Making…

People in this episode

Host: Léo

Topics covered

  • unschooling
  • education
  • child development
  • parenting
  • faith
  • post-secondary education

Keywords

  • unschooling
  • education
  • children's future
  • parenting
  • faith-based education
  • self-confidence
  • learning interests

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Organizations: God

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