'Learn Free' (an unschooling documentary)
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"Learn Free" is a documentary about unschooling which is an educational philosophy that states children learn best by not attending traditional school, but rather through their own interests and by living life.
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ive been unschooling for about 3-4 years now, and i am 14. i love it because i can learn at my own pace, and learn what i feel necessary. i have always hated school, but not for "traditional" reasons. they make me learn in such a way that is very inefficient for me. i learn things in a way that schools dont teach, and it is by far the most efficient for me.
can i do crazy, unecessary math problems like a math professor? no. but i can do everything that i would ever need to very efficiently.
My unschooling kid graduated this year and was named a Presidential Scholar at a top 60 university. :) She also received admission into and generous scholarship offers from other great universities, including Northwestern, ironically. Teach a kid to love learning and they will.
I'm dyslexic, but I love reading and writing! I feel if I had been in school I would have been labeled at a young age and therefor discouraged. Despite having difficulties reading I still push my way through novels and started writing stories when I was 10 (My first one was 30,000 words)
We LOVE being unschoolers!!! I see there are so many still looking through an "institutionalized," forced-learning filter which is totally understandable. I did too as another brainwashed product of the system. To understand homeschooling or how we most effectively & authentically learn, we must first "detox" from the programmed frame of reference that was used to control us as children. Be free, love the amazing, unique, brilliant, innovative, perfect creative being that you are - and do the same for your children. Drop all doubt and fear, listen to your gut, trust those perfect instincts screaming inside you, find your way out of all the confusion and frustration by following your truth & intuition. And thrive in joy together ♡
Beautifully said, Jana. Thank you!
It never ceases to amaze me that people are prepared to turn their children over to strangers to be schooled.
i get where you are coming from on this point. So I am not disagreeing with it. On the other hand, the problem is also that we don't have the time to thoroughly research and get to know the strangers toward whom we are turning our child over for care and education....
I have to clarify though: one can unschool with other people at the same time, in the same building. But that's not really considered a 'school'. See: Sudbury Valley School.
People treat children terribly. Its never *actually* about what the child wants, or the child's rights, its about the parents wants, the parents rights. Kids are not dumb, vacant, not understanding, little animals like you treat them. They *know* what they want, better then anyone else, they know their desires, needs. And when the world isn't set up for them like a playpin, they are careful.
They *do* have consideration for their own lives. Especially if they know the world isn't that playpin, and get outside it.
School pushed me beyond the breaking point. Staying alive caused near insanity. I would sit in class always on the verge of tears, wishing ever single person there dead for putting pressure on me to be there, and being part of a system that I couldn't escape, and wanted out of so bad. I couldn't handle school, I was being dragged by that metaphorical wagon. And worse, I wasn't allowed to let go.
Always being made to feel guilty and to "keep going its not much further", when I was already beyond a point I could handle. If people had cared for me as much as they said, while I was in a state so bad I couldn't function, and was literally always screaming inside and wanting everything, including me, to die, they would have realized "Gee, this isn't how to help him." instead of "Suffer! Break down! Its whats *best* for you."
But the kid doesn't matter. We're just put there to be babysat. We don't know what we need. We aren't capable.
Actually *listen* to the people in question. Consult the people who's lives you are literally controlling. You aren't in their head. You don't have their limits, their dreams, their minds. You literally are not them, therefore, you do not by default no better. Actually consult them about something that can, and has, taken lives, caused people to break down, cry themselves to sleep all the time.
Otherwise, your just adding to some other kid like I was, wishing they were not alive, crying themselves to sleep. But don't worry, you're the adult. You know best. I was just delusional.
Thank u so much I had tears of joy and sadness in my eyes as I was watching it because I always hated school I was bullied a lot by students and teachers alike as I was the only black girl in the whole school I've heard you worthless so many times that I started to believe it and that's something I'm still trying to overcome even after so many years the damage they done goes deep... every morning I would wake up and hope I didn't have to go. I have no children yet but I will never send them to school...... school is child abuse.
Well said honey
why do we need school when we have google and wikipedia
Great to hear people plugging John Holt. He is almost unknown here in the UK now. HCLearn and HCFail are two of the greatest books ever written about learning. I wish all of you every success.
I sincerely wonder about the USA education system. I'm from Belgium, and I absolutely don't recognize school in what I hear. I went to school for 15 years, from 3 to 18, and I'm still going to college. I received help when I needed, I was taught a lot of fascinating things, and my teachers were nice to me. It wasn't a prison, a daycare, or anything like that. It was a place where I learnt.
RESPECT TO HOMESCHOOLERS!
I think your daughter will be as social as she wants to be, as long as you two are communicating. Communication about what the student wants is the cornerstone of homeschooling and unschooling.
I am for homeschooling and forcing someone into a public school is like sending them to prison for no reason because public schools like middle school through high school do not teach but elementary school does.
yes!
Well I love going to school, because I have friends there. I love my friends and though High School may not be easy, I get through it pretty well. My brother dropped out of High School and had the worst time of his life, He had no friends or anything. So he went back to school to finish what he started and is now going to college to become a nurse. I am not a stay at home type of person. I have to be somewhere. And I love learning at school. So, homeschooling doesn't work for everyone including me. High School taught me a lot of things, and I still learn on my own, because I love reading books about physics and about the mind and everything.
My parents are the same way - they believe everything they see on television and everything they read in newspapers. The only thing that is important is that YOU never stop questioning things.
Mass schooling is literally designed to remove creativity and imagination from children. Your mother, like so many others, is trying to do good in a system that is inherently corrupt.
Look up John Taylor Gatto on youtube for more information. He is very wise and I think he will help you.
A person who is different from others (slower at X, faster at Y, less interested in Z, more interested in W), has the advantage to follow his interests at his own speed. This also prevents them from being turned off by certain topics or become bored with them.
I enjoyed your video. I was unschooled to some degree at various intervals of my childhood. For the most part, I attended non traditional private schools where learning and curriculum were based on life experiences. We travelled the world, studied in tree houses, and learned very unconventionally. The tuition for these schools were upward of $10,000 a year. That's unfortunate. I am hopeful that homeschooling my 3 kids at home, I can provide the same enrichment!
I have to sa as a partial unschooling mom, my 13yr old has just started Algebra 1, does online science with "The Happy Scientist", Professor Krampf, Cursive writing. As for Language and writing we work that into, Bible daily reflections, writing about anything he finds interesting, writing out the grocery list, etc (he hates Language and Writng and Grammer) so we just found another way to get those subjects in (by freestyle, LOL)! Unschooled children with "direction" and Goals do very well :-)
very true, history is something that i love exploring but i hated it when i was force into learning how to take apart a sentence and i always kept on forgetting about how to do most of it
I love the ending comment. ~Giving them the world instead of breaking it down into worksheets and standardized tests is the best way, absolutely. I have been on the fence about homeschooling as I am afraid I do not qualify as someone that can actually teach my children, but as I learn more and more my confidence gains and I am closer to making a change. Thanks for the video.~Nikki
It's nice to see an unscooling documentary where the parents aren't total idiots and the kids are actually learning something. There is still hope for the unschooling movement!
A book I'm reading pointed out that only during school are you put in a situation where you're around 25 people the same age as you. Once you leave school, you are to interact with people from various ages and from various backgrounds.
School, therefore, does not provide a socializing structure congruent to real-world/real-time/real-life interactions.
Love it...thanks for sharing this video...especially for having included slightly different view from the professor at Northwestern.
I also believe unschooling makes sense for people who have come to realize that they can be in charge of their lives and that they have the power to do so. For many of us, we don't realize this till later in our lives, or we never really realize it. I feel its essential for children to realize this reality as early as possible...and continue to have that reality validated as they grow up. Freedom and responsibility are, after all, two sides of the same coin.
This little video, has transformed my home. It is the first thing I ever heard about unschooling. We love unschooling, my kids are happy, I'm happy, for the first time ever in our school journey. This video sparked the unschooling fire in our house, thanks for posting.
What about re-schooling? I was 41 until I discovered that I in fact had been indoctrinated by the public school system in Los Angeles 70-80s, I had to undoctrinate myself, using the access of the internet, my eyes are wide open, I wish I would have been taught what I've taught myself in the last 5 years when I was 14 years old
Hi Becca4484,
In the description area is a link to the Unschool Reddit. There are a lot of people there who can help you with such questions, and there you can find more resources as well.
I would also recommend looking into books by John Holt.
Well, when I was teaching myself Portuguese & then when I was teaching myself Spanish, people I spoke with who spoke those languages would voluntarily tell me when I was getting better.
What I am saying is the possibility of acquiring social interaction in school. There, you are forced to do what is needed to do, where here, in unschooling you should have a great deal of determination and motivation to learn and very supportive parents to cater in your needs. Unschooling is an ideal but still a vague concept to materialize in large-scale. And regarding your dilemma in formal education, i think it's a personal problem, it's called respect. You can learn it by yourself.
My son is eight and reads at a ninth grade level (he's a second grader). He was in public school, I took him out because he had "problems." I homeschooled him, placed him in a new school and the public school teacher told me to go back to homeschooling. He won't grow any more in public. We don't have a curriculum. We play math board games, watch cartoons on historical figures, discuss civics, and he has learned HTML. So, I kind of think it's working.
2015 Book re-release: "The Underground History of American Education" www.JohnTaylorGatto.com
It doesn't take much reading to figure out the inherent flaws of force-based education. John Holt, Grace Llewellyn, John Taylor Gatto, Alfie Kohn, Sandra Dodd... Good reads by authors with incredible insight and ideas. See also Peter Gray, Lenore Skenazy, Lisa Nielsen, Dale Stephens, Blake Boles... Then there's all the videos on here about unschooling, Sudbury schools, and criticisms of public schools. The most important thing, however, is introspection. Epistemology is written in your own mind!
Thank you
You've helped me find a piece of my freedom as an adult.
Well...I think that the years I spent away from a school have served me well.
We prefer the kind of social interaction you get on playgrounds, playdates, birthdays, malls, theaters, vacations, summer camps, sports, the internets.. you know, the voluntary kind with people of different ages and interests; as opposed to the kind of social interaction you get in prison: involuntary with a bunch of hyper-depressed people mushed together.
See also on RUclips: 'Messy Mondays: Seven Lies about Homeschoolers'. (also linked from the playlist in the description area)
Your mother has to come to understand how important this is to you. Do your research beforehand. Have answers to the questions she'll ask (what about college? what about social life? etc.) Show her videos and interviews with successful adults who were homeschooled and unschooled. Most importantly, don't give up! There's nothing more personal than how we choose to educate ourselves, and everyone deserves the freedom to do so in their own, personal way. Best of luck!
Homeshooling is different from unschooling. Homeschooling involves a curriculum and grades. Unschooling does not. Virtual schooling is a form of homeschooling because it is school done at home. Anyway, how will an unschooler do on exams?
School was awful for me. I was depressed everyday. If i ever have kids, i will do unschooling, or relaxed homeschooling.
I can really relate with the thought of learning how to use money in school with a worksheet. I remember being very good at worksheets and mastering the concepts but as a kid I didn't really make the connection to the real world. I was great at tests, worksheets and doing as I was told. However, when I got to college I had no idea who I was as a person, what I truly loved and made me happy. I was so busy with the homework and trying so, so, so hard for that A that I did really lose an identity and the ability to think for myself. I have a 4 year old now and 1st grade gifted learner. I practically unschooled until school and have the hardest time wanting to send them. We tried homeschooling the traditional way and for my "gifted" learner it didn't work. For her unschooling is what really would be best for her however, I am having a hard time making the leap!
I hope you did it! 😁 It worked really well for my gifted children. They love to learn and they’re doing what they love as adults now.
i think it's best for elementary school students. Highschool students too, i guess. But college might be needed as these kids find what they really want to do in life.
We already know how unschoolers will do in 20 years, unschooling is 40 years old. Those who unschooled when the idea first came out in the 70s are doing just fine...Albert Einstein was pretty okay, too
This is the best documentary that I have seen on Unschooling. Thank you.
John doesn't say that math instruction is unnecessary, more like advanced math is not used by 99% of people. People do use inductive and deductive reasoning all the time, however (as pointed out in the video) and math class is typically where this is practiced heavily. People need basic math to function in general, as well as reasoning skills. Higher math expands your abilities, but as John argues 99% currently do not use it directly.
@tairanotomomori Being an unschooler myself, I'll be a social worker most likely. Possibly traveling the world, and running my own business. It really depends on what exactly I want to do at any given time.
At least this way your kids wouldnt get bullied. I wish I could have done this type of schooling.
I like the idea of unschooling, however, I think it will work for families with smart parents. There are plenty of parents who can't teach anything good, so for their children school education might be the only way to achieve something.
I don't know Izolda, I had a good education but I have learnt so much more from teaching my own kids.
Kazzav5 the question is if they will learn more from you or you from them.
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I worked there and my son graduated from there. Its a wonderful place.
I agree with the concept of unschooling and think that public schools (and just about 100% of private schools, for that matter) are downright awful, but I have to wonder how feasible it is for most. Often, both parents want to or have to work. Also, most people I know would make really shitty 'learning facilitators', so to speak. It seems more efficient to me to destructuralize curricula in schools and turn them into a place where kids go to tell competent people what they'd like to do/learn.
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Thanks for the playlist. I told my parents of the evils of school
(like a prison) and offered up unschooling and homeschooling . They deeply rejected both and said I have no choice but to go to school. They even threatened to beat me and take away my pc and internet.
Virtual schooling and youtube isn't a place to tell on you parents, come on man.
This is great! Thank you for posting. I can't wait to read that book the one lady talked about, about quitting school, I will buy it soon. She really has a passion you can tell, I'd love to pick her brain!
I have a Family and Psychology playlist you might be interested in. Link added to the video description.
Its totally a valid option & also a fantastic option. I have read all the John Hot books, I unschooled my kids in the 90s. Yes through play more advanced concepts are accessed. That expert David Uttal from Northwestern Uni needs to do much more research if he wants to speak out with correct information on unschooling, he gets it a bit but is way off the long term outcomes that these children achieve. The other parents totally get it, in time they will become very expert in this lifestyle. I wish them all the best in their endeavour. Their children will become amazing contributors to our society.
Unschooling is privilege - the privilege to see education and opportunity as natural and inevitable rather than as precious resources that can be impossible to access or worth giving everything one has to access for one's children. If you are able to think about learning what you need to learn to develop your full human potential as something that will happen "naturally," you have extreme levels of privilege on a global scale. People whose kids are working the garbage dump for scrap or begging on the street know better. Does that make it wrong to pursue, if you really are able because of your own educational and economic privilege, to provide all the education and opportunity that your children need to have a decent life and a full complement of opportunities in a way that feels "natural" to you, I guess not but the unawareness of privilege among unschooling advocates is noticeable.
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Fuck school im a student im sick of years of school
I wish I had been this enlightened when I homeschooled my kids! I had to earn a PhD in education to be convinced that unschooling is the best way for children to reach their full potential AND love learning for a lifetime.
Now that I think about it, my current career path is based on what I did outside of school, not in school. That would be IT. We got a computer back in '94 at home and it fascinated me. We only did a couple months of half a period of typing in school (that's my computer interaction in school) and I could only touch type (fast). On my own, after I graduated, I learned typing on my own in about an hour. Hmmm...
Interesting methods to teach math, history, reading, and writing. Let them discover by themselves what and why they need to learn. Even would apply to high school kids. Not, "You better learn these math formulas". But use a car engine that needs to have the cylinders bored out 30 or 40 thous larger. How much will the displacement increase? What will be the new displacement? How does the student figure the volume of each cyclinder? Now he wants to know about Pi x R squared for circle area
Besides, if you ever got interested in something that required advanced math, you can just learn what you need to do what you want.
For me, science is so much easier to learn on my own than in a school setting. The internet, books, some TV, and other publications are wonderful ways to learn about science. I figure the same would hold true for math.
If your mom is a teacher you should direct her to listen to Alfie Kohn's talks, any of them on youtube. Try to search for the the "Alfie Kohn session at NTAC 2011". The last part is very exciting but listen to the whole thing anyway. He is a teacher doing research on teaching and learning. Maybe he can convince her. You are the type of student who especially should be learning at home, because you have the drive, the interest, the motivation to develop yourself. Good luck in your future.
Another huge benefit to unschooling OR homeschooling is that children aren't bogged down with HOURS of homework after school! You can cover everything you need to cover, in a fun way, during the day, and then continue that learning through dinner to bedtime without it being WORK! :)
@Lucailey No, it's teaching them that there's other choices then school. I'm assuming that if anyone of those kids said "Can I go to school?" their parents would say yes. And if we want to go to college, we will, or get a "real" job, we'll learn the things we need to, to do so. ._.
Not true, all Universities/Colleges now do assessment tests and interviews; their experience is that home schoolers are more serious and likely to succeed.
John taylor gatto - the 7 hidden lessons of compulsory education
Under the video is a button 'show more', where you'll see links to more videos on education, two books by different authors, and a link to the unschooling Reddit community.
@LexieDeaves But the real question is, in our society, roughly, not many of us are going to need algebra, most jobs don't need it. Unschooling 9 year olds? A lot of them do amazing things. I know unschooling 14 year olds who have written books, and traveled to different countries, and met people, and had experiences that your "average" adult hasn't even thought of having.
"My kids go to the store and use money" LOL Yes that is what I am talking about
Sometimes parents want what they think is best for you so much that they forget that your education belongs to you and no one else. I would recommend the book Nielsio listed, "The Teenage Liberation Handbook," for you. For your mom, I'd reach out to other homeschooling and unschooling blogs for advice. Many homeschooling parents used to be teachers, so they can understand where she's coming from. As a last resort, I'd recommend family therapy. Again, your education is yours and yours alone.
@pentatonia & most unschoolers do understand it. I know 16 year olds in college, that are doing amazing. I know an 18 year old unschooler who runs her own business,Not many 18 year olds can say that, they can say they're going to college, most likely to learn to do something they probably don't want to learn, because they just spend the last 12 years of their lives learning pointless stuff, but are doing so, to please their parents. & By the way, this is coming from a 14 year old unschooler.c:
Really like this - thanks for making it! We've been unschooling for all of my younger children's lives. Great stuff!
Is unschooling legal in NYC?
@Treemeadow This documentary does not provide both sides of the argument. All of these people represent unschooling and one of them does not have the best knowledge of what he is talking about.
Thank you. It seems scary getting out of school. But I suppose you're right. Freedom is all we need.
If you have any other advice please tell me. I need it!
I don't see what element of (mandatory) traditional instructional schooling was at your advantage here. 'Unschooling' can be voluntarily done with other children from different ages at one location as well, for a payment or as a community project (see Sudbury Valley School).
Unschooling doesn't mean that you don't interact with a wider group of people or strangers. Unschooling means you get to decide how to prioritize your goals, and how to go about them.
i dont believe unschooling and homeschooling should be in the same catagory. i know people who homeschool and there kids and they learn the same things and ways kids at school do just at home.
I very much agree, I am homeschooled and I am doing classes above my grade level and advancing. However, unschooling is not really educational.
There is a link in the description box to more videos on the topic of education, which cover those questions.
although one thing i may have noticed is there is no oppressive authority or predjudice in unschooling, thus they will not learn rebellion or conflict resolution skills.
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See the video 'Why Math Instruction Is Unnecessary', if you follow the link 'More videos on education' in the description area.
@tairanotomomori
Unschooling is not new, in our culture alone it dates back at least to the 60's. As a college instructor I had home-schooled students 30 years ago. They were, by the way, always in the top 5% of the class. By contrast, it is the public school system that is an experiment to train docile workers for industry. Do your research before throwing out a misleading assumption.
You were able to find this video, so why wouldn't you be able to find other resources to continue your development.
Not a bad doco, but missing the certain philosophical element I was looking for, e.g.:
• Explicit critique of utilitarianism
• Explicit critique of the number of curricula
• Explicit critique of government involvement in schooling
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hell yea. humanity is changing for the better
So does unschooling make our children unsocial ? I have a 5 yr old daughter I've never heard of unschooling before but am considering it . I went to public school from k to 12 and hated it. I was labeled by government , teachers , I don't want that for my child. My daughter dad was homeschooled , he's not social .I guess I worry abit if I should do this or not we are using a curriculm right now am thinking of switching.
I know you didn't ask me, but looking back, I realize that throughout school, I didn't know much. I learned decent math skills and mediocre English skills on not much else. After I graduated I suddenly had all this time to myself and wasn't being mentally assaulted 7 hours a day by pointless facts (memorizing dates is somehow world history). I then found, naturally, I started learning on my own based on my own interest very quickly. In a way, freedom was all I needed. Maybe you too.
That’s how it was for me. My real education started after I graduated from college.
Cool documentary. Thanks.
This puts a smile on my face. :)
All though I value unstructured learning above structured learning and I think this video is amazing, I can not do what I want without structured learning.
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The benefits of the "socialization" that children receive in traditional schools are highly questionable. Most Western schools are based on the "Prussian" model - the express purpose of which was to create docile, obedient workers and soldiers to do the bidding of the State. This method seems to have been quite effective in solidifying and glorifying State power in the minds of the citizenry. Fortunately, that system is starting to crumble.
If anyone expresses concerns with socialisation of unschooled children they are the worry not these families. Its a non issue!
The guy with glasses in this video does not understand Unschooling. I am not sure why he is in this documentary. He is espousing opinions without having any real clue as to what he is talking about.
Great video though. Thanks for posting!
Thank you for sharing your story, I find unschooling really interesting, it definitely poses a lot of questions!
@ssherrod57
Unschooling with a parent who has had an expensive university education, and is able to stay home, is an huge luxury that only the richest can afford but it would lead to a great education.
When a poorly educated parent attempts to do the same, the child will be limited by the education of the parent - unschooling was the norm pre-1900 for the poor (the rich had 1on1 tutors or school), and the children of labourers would become labourers.
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Your answer confused me. To use a different example then dyslexia, when I started school it was discovered that I had a severe speech problem. My parents and the rest of my family didn't really notice because they did understand me but everyone else couldn't really understand a word I was saying. I had speech therapy for over half of my time at my elementary school to fix that problem. Without going to school it would've taken a whole lot longer. What about cases like that?
"Nothing" by "The Rebel Set" was a really good choice.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this truly beautiful documentary
I had never heard about unschooling before I watched this video. In my opinion it’s a great idea, however, i don't prefer unschooling. That’s not the right way for me. I like to go to school five times a week. If people like unschooling, it will be ok for me. I understand and respect their opinion. In my mind it’s harder to learn at home as if you learn in school with other students. In my opinion the children who have unschooling, it’s harder for them in the future when they are searching a job or want to go to university!
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What is going to happen when these children go to college or try to get a real job where they will be required to know somethings? It is great to have children take an interest in learning and learn about subjects they want to learn about. However, the world is not all about me. I have to do things I don't want to do. At 28 years old I can't expect to take care of myself if all I do is work on things I want to and unschooling is teaching these children that everything is about what they want.
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I wish I was unschooled when I was a child
a google education could probably beat the hell out of the norm
Schools have pretty much turned into thought prisons. Imagine what you could learn in 13 years if you were out in the world exploring and discovering vs reciting information from textbooks.
I know a home schooled kid who is kind of a nutcase but he does have a hell of an imagination.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
-Albert Einstein
watch "waiting for superman" at documentarywire dotcom
I have a question: my Mom is a public school teacher, works her ass off, and I try talking to her about homeschooling and unschooling but she just rejects everything I say. I am trapped, I am hating public school, I learn more things and ideals from the internet and the books I read, i do not want to be conformed in school. What should i do?
and minutephysics and minuteearth, and Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye and all the books on the subject that are easily digestible and run on sentences! Yeah, there is a ton of science-related stuff available. Math too if you wanted and awesome games like TuxMath which is like Missile Command except you solve math problems (more fun than it sounds).