Regarding unschooling. Yes, everything is a learning opportunity. But I hope this view doesn’t oppose discipline–training. Discipline, toward liberty and free scope of the mind–Noah Webster’s view–accelerates learning at the time a child’s fleshly impulses dominate. This is the “train up” factor–narrowing the path. Indeed, what great endeavor doesn’t require a regimen. Athletes, musicians, engineers, airline pilots, physicians all train exquisitely. Why not the child for the most important training of his life–learning how to learn? This doesn’t mean such learning is a grind. The school subjects are Jesus’ strategic life subjects, full of wonder and truth. It is the typical both/and where men love to make things either/or. The narrow path–under the tension of balance–leads to life. Unschooling as a means to avoid the challenges of learning, or to make everything easy, to cite Noah Webster again, is unphilosophical and wrong.
