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So, to be clear, you would go to a doctor, etc who was unschooled for the first 18yrs of their life and then went to university?  Pretty much what most unschooled kids of highly educated and involved parents do.  I've never seen the term unschooled used with regard to higher education.  It's typically, like homeschooling, a term reserved for the education of children 18 and younger.[/quote]

If unschooling is valid, it is valid not just for 5-18-year-olds, but also for higher education. So the question is not, would I go to a doctor who was unschooled up to age 18? As you say, there is no way I would know. The question is, would you go to a doctor who didn't go to medical school?[/quote]

Actually, no I'd disagree with you that what's valid for a 6yr old is valid for a 24yr old and vice versa.  Stages of development and learning styles are vastly different.  Levels and depths of knowledge needed in a given subject (say, biology) are very different for a teenager learning general principles and someone who is going to seek advanced training to become a doctor or molecular biologist. And I think you know that but just want to be 1000% against unschooling as an option.  To your point though, I would not seek treatment from a doctor who did not have formal medical training and all that it entails.

Like I said, I'm on the fence about it but I do know families for whom it works.  It would not work for us.[/quote]

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