the process of providing education using non-institutional systems of learning, rather than conventional schools, in the belief that students may develop more freely

the aim of deschooling is to let go of the idea that school is the only path to education

the deschooling movement

The action or process of transferring the function of education within a society from conventional schools to non-institutional systems of learning which are held to allow the student to develop more freely. Chiefly in or with reference to the writings of Ivan Illich.

The action or process of removing a child from the school system so as to educate him or her at home; the transitional process undergone by a child removed from the school system.

To limit or abolish institutionalized education in (a society); to subject (a society) to a process of deschooling. Chiefly in or with reference to the writings of Ivan Illich.

To remove (a child) from the school system so as to educate him or her at home.