Education is

"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world."

Hannah Arendt, Teaching as Leading

Freedom to Learn

Peter Gray has a blog at Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn. There's a a blog post up that includes some thoughts on unschooling. Go to http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn
and look for Trustful Parenting May Require an Alternative to Conventional Schooling
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200908/trustful-parenting-may-require-alternative-conventional-schooling

The article is pretty good but the comments are even more interesting.