Name: 非學校教育：父母為何在家教育孩子 (Unschooling: Why Parents Teach Their Kids at Home)
Uploaded: 2025-07-24T18:03:47.000Z
Duration: 6 min 48 s

Imagine you get sent, day in and day out, to a random company to work without pay.

想象一下，你日復一日地被隨機派到一家公司無償工作。

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Each workday starts with an hour-long meeting, followed by another meeting, and another meeting, and so on and so forth.

每個工作日都要先開一個小時的會，然後再開會，再開會，如此反覆。

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All meetings are on different, seemingly random corporate objectives.

所有會議都在討論不同的、看似隨意的企業目標。

Your primary job, sit down, shut up, listen to your supervisor, and take note.

你的主要工作，就是坐下來，閉上嘴，聽你的上司說，並記下來。

And when you think that the day is finally over, you are told to take some of the work home.

當你以為這一天終於結束時，你卻被告知要把一些工作帶回家。

Sounds like a horrific corporation, doesn't it?

聽起來像個可怕的公司，不是嗎？

This, however, is the perceived reality of many young people in what's called a 21st century school.

然而，這就是許多年輕人在所謂的 21 世紀學校中所感受到的現實。

那麼，我們怎麼會碰巧來到這裡呢？

Friedrich the Great, the King of Prussia, came up with the idea of modern factory schools.

普魯士國王弗里德里希大帝提出了建立現代工廠學校的想法。

The emperor was inspired by Plato, who argued that the ideal city requires ideal individuals, and ideal individuals require an ideal education.

柏拉圖認為，理想的城市需要理想的個人，而理想的個人需要理想的教育。

And so, the king introduced compulsory education in 1763, with the mission to unify Germany.

是以，國王在 1763 年引入了義務教育，以統一德意志為己任。

Increase literacy and boost the education of all its citizens, including the very poor.

提高識字率，加強對包括赤貧者在內的所有公民的教育。

The early Prussian school system provided eight years of instruction in reading, writing, music, and religious studies.

早期的普魯士學校系統提供八年的閱讀、寫作、音樂和宗教學習教育。

It imposed a strict ethos of duty, discipline, and obedience.

它強加了一種嚴格的責任、紀律和服從的精神。

The model turned into a big cultural, economical, and military success that inspired rulers from Tokyo to Washington.

這一模式在文化、經濟和軍事上取得了巨大成功，激勵了從東京到華盛頓的統治者。

Not long after, state officials all around the world started writing curriculums, and public education became both a child's right and duty.

不久之後，世界各地的州政府官員開始編寫課程，公共教育成為兒童的權利和義務。

In 1938, the Germans then went one step further and made school attendance compulsory.

1938 年，德國人更進一步，規定必須上學。

Ever since, it's not parents, but the state that makes sure kids go to school.

從那時起，確保孩子們上學的就不是父母，而是國家。

Today, 85% out of all adults worldwide are literate, and access to information is abundant.

今天，全世界 85% 的成年人都識字，獲取信息的管道也非常豐富。

Should government officials still have a monopoly on how we learn?

政府官員還應該壟斷我們的學習方式嗎？

A growing number of parents don't think so, and want to take control over their own child's education.

越來越多的家長不這麼認為，他們希望掌控自己孩子的教育。

They advocate for what's called unschooling.

Unschooling is the process of learning through life, outside institutionalized classrooms.

非學校教育是在制度化的課堂之外，通過生活進行學習的過程。

Similar to homeschooling, it usually happens at home or in other places.

與家庭教育類似，這通常發生在家裡或其他地方。

But while homeschooling usually follows a formal curriculum, unschooling doesn't.

但是，家庭教育通常遵循正規課程，而非學校教育則不然。

Unschoolers learn through their natural life experiences, including play, chores, travel, books, elective classes, board games, internships, mentors, and living in a community.

非學校教育者通過自然的生活體驗來學習，包括遊戲、家務、旅行、書籍、選修課、棋盤遊戲、實習、導師和社區生活。

家長或輔導員發揮著重要作用。

They provide resources, facilitate the learning experiences, and help the child to reflect on their progress.

他們提供資源，促進學習體驗，幫助孩子反思自己的進步。

So how come parents choose to unschool their children when it's much more convenient to send them to school?

那麼，既然送孩子上學更方便，為什麼家長會選擇不上學呢？

Schools can negatively affect the parent-child relationship, often replacing it with an atmosphere of fear.

學校會對親子關係產生負面影響，往往以恐懼氣氛取而代之。

Institutionalizing kids in a one-size-fits-all classroom is an inefficient use of their time and potential, because it requires each one to learn a subject in a particular way, and at a pace that doesn't take into account a child's interests, or any pre-existing knowledge they might have.

把孩子們關在 "一刀切 "的教室裡，是對他們時間和潛能的低效利用，因為這要求每個孩子以特定的方式和進度學習一門學科，而不考慮孩子的興趣或他們可能已有的知識。

In school, children are primarily taught how to follow instructions, which means they don't practice doing things independently.

在學校裡，孩子們主要學習如何聽從指令，這意味著他們無法練習獨立做事。

Unschoolers have to solve problems by themselves all the time.

無學校教育者必須經常自己解決問題。

Schoolchildren are told all their lives what to do.

小學生一生都被告知該做什麼。

As a result, they later often have no idea what they want, and hence simply conform.

是以，他們後來往往不知道自己想要什麼，因而只是一味地順從。

Unschoolers practice making their own decisions every day.

無學校教育者每天都在練習自己做決定。

They learn to know what they want, and are more likely to question social ills.

他們學會了解自己想要什麼，也更有可能質疑社會弊端。

School focuses almost exclusively on what to learn all day.

學校幾乎只關注整天要學什麼。

Unschoolers learn to ask the much more important question, why learn it?

非學校教育者要學會問一個更重要的問題：為什麼要學？

Schools cover only a few subjects someone thought of a few hundred years ago.

學校只涵蓋幾百年前有人想到的幾個科目。

Unschoolers can explore way more interests, and look into topics at far greater depth.

無學校教育者可以探索更多的興趣，研究更深入的主題。

John Holt, a pioneer of unschooling, said it as follows, The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.

非學校教育的先驅約翰-霍爾特（John Holt）如是說："孩子們因不斷接受測試而感到焦慮，他們害怕失敗、懲罰和恥辱，這嚴重削弱了他們的感知能力和記憶能力，使他們從學習材料中脫離出來，轉而採取一些策略來欺騙老師，讓老師以為他們知道他們實際上不知道的東西。

What are the good and bad sides of unschooling?

And more broadly, should the state or parents decide what to teach a child and what to leave out?

更廣泛地說，是由國家還是由父母來決定教孩子什麼，不教什麼？

If you like how we explain complicated ideas in simple cartoon animation, you can support us.

如果您喜歡我們用簡單的卡通動畫來解釋複雜的想法，您可以支持我們。

Just visit us, learn how it works, and what's in it for you.

請訪問我們，瞭解它是如何工作的，以及它對您有什麼好處。

And if you are a parent or educator, check out our website sproutschools.com.

如果您是家長或教育工作者，請訪問我們的網站 sproutschools.com。

There you can find this and other video lessons, additional resources, and classroom activities.

在那裡，您可以找到本課和其他視頻課程、其他資源以及課堂活動。

If you found this helpful, check out our other videos and subscribe.

如果您覺得這對您有幫助，請查看我們的其他視頻並訂閱。

If you want to support our work, join us on patreon.com slash sprouts.

如果您想支持我們的工作，請登錄 patreon.com slash sprouts 加入我們。

For more information and additional content, visit sproutschools.com. you

欲瞭解更多資訊和其他內容，請訪問 sproutschools.com。