Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing

If the phrase “school wounds” stirs something inside of you, or the words “crisis schooling” describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, or you’ve just always intuited that there’s something not quite right about modern compulsory schooling, this episode is for you.

TOPICS:

• The reimagining of schooling as we’ve known it

• Akilah’s story of schooling and unschooling

• Unschooling is not just school at home- it’s a whole new paradigm of learning, power, and belonging

• School wounds

• The radical presence it takes to raise up kids in this way

• How leaving school can free up a family’s life in myriad unanticipated ways

• Schoolishness and the American Dream, in which so much of the actual human gets lost

• The slow normalization of dehumanizing systems and institutions

• Being constantly in curiosity about how our children (and ourselves!) actually learn

• Reframing consent in the parent/child relationship

• The liberation of being allowed bodily autonomy (especially for black folk)

• Akilah’s response to the common assertions that only stay at home parents/rich people/white people can school at home

• Actionizing love & recognizing that it’s all portal work

RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast)::

• RaisingFreePeople.com

• Fare of the Free Child Podcast

• Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards

• Akilah’s Patreon

• Akilah on Instagram

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

• Psychology Today article

• John Tayloe Gatto’s many astute writings on modern schooling

• My website MythicMedicine.love

• Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz

• Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)