“...I have an odd feeling that whatever we do in environments we share with children, we ought to do because they seem like the most sensible, interesting, and humane things to do in the here and now, without hoping or expecting too much of this or that will cause the children to grow up to be this or that kind of person, or do this or that or the other thing.”—John Holt

Educators often criticize unschoolers for having no structure since they are learner-directed, and unschoolers often criticize conventional schools for having too much structure and being authoritarian. But is this classification really useful?