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When families choose unschooling or homeschooling as the educational path for their child, one question comes up very frequently: How will I ensure my child’s commitment to learning without exams—or rather, without any external exams?
Let me put it this way: how about we consider that the child is learning simply because the child wants to learn?
The child is not learning to pass any exams. The child is learning for the pure joy of learning, and we don’t need to guarantee that joy by bringing in external testing. We just need to let the child learn with their own joy and their own self-assessment.
Learning is Naturally Joyful
After working with hundreds of children at Aarohi, I have realized that learners do not necessarily need an external exam to prove that they have learned.
Instead, children commit to their learning through intrinsic motivation:
- They learn because learning is joyful.
- They learn because they like learning.
- They learn because they want to learn.
- They learn because they have chosen to learn it.
- They learn because they genuinely value that learning.
The Takeaway: Commitment doesn’t come from the fear of a test; it comes from ownership. When learning belongs to the child, the drive to learn takes care of itself.
Thank you.
Whatsapp Ratnesh from Aarohi Life Education
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