An excerpt from the Fearless Teaching story entitled: Unschooling

 

...World over, most schooling emphasizes accountability, meaning that the will and free spirit of a fair number of our youth are drummed out of them over years of mandatory sitting in rows for hours every day and ranking the value of each based fundamentally upon how compliant they are with our requirements and standards. Hadza children are subject to no such competitions or judgments. They merely play. Through mimicry of their elders, they care for infants, build huts and tools, make fires, defend against make-believe predators, and tell stories. If their parents have quarreled, they may rehash it the next day in playful mimicry. Suicide and anxiety are incomprehensible. They learn to stay alive and healthy naturally.

Out in a field our first morning with these children, they found us honeycomb high up in some tree branches, the sweetest treat I have ever tasted. They also made miniature bows and arrows for fun, and we saw eight or nine year-olds who appeared to be stalking small creatures...