You’re a grown-up now (unless you are a kid viewing this on your mom’s computer, in which case you should go finish your Latin homework, and would it kill you to clean up your room without being asked, just once? Honestly, it would thrill your mother’s heart, and would lessen your chances of dying from whatever mold is growing under your bed), and as a grown-up, you don’t HAVE to go to school any more…but you GET the awesome opportunity to learn for the sheer joy of becoming a more educated, curious, free person.
In her audio lecture “Educating Ourselves as We Educate Our Children” (available as a CD or a digital download), Susan Wise Bauer offers encouragement, observations, and practical tips for self-education, even for people who feel like they’re too busy to read a book.