Ben Greenfield

I think I heard him say it during a TED Talk or something like that.

Even if your kids are going to a private or public school, your job as a parent to de-educate slash educate school slash unschool them starts the minute they walk in the door.

Even if your kids are going to a private or public school, your job as a parent to educate

de-educate slash educate, school slash unschool them starts the minute they walk in the door.

So that means that what they learn about the world, their worldview, their habits, their rituals, their routine, business, entrepreneurship,

So that means that what they learn about the world, their worldview, their habits, their rituals, their routine, business, entrepreneurship, those lessons are going to be far more valuable attained from you than they are from the standard education model

Those lessons are going to be far more valuable attained from you than they are from the standard education model, which is basically fabricated from a German industrial model of making factory workers who all learn at the same pace, put round pegs and round holes, square pegs and square holes, learn to memorize rote facts and pass tests and do homework.

which is basically fabricated from a German industrial model of making factory workers who all learn at the same pace, put round pegs and round holes, square pegs and square holes, learn to memorize rote facts and pass tests and do homework.

Whereas the worker of the future, the impactful human being of the future, needs to be able to creatively adapt on the fly to their position being constantly replaced by autonomous work and AI and robots.

Whereas the worker of the future, the impactful human being of the future, needs to be able to creatively adapt on the fly to their position being constantly replaced by autonomous work and AI and robots.

They need to be someone who's able to write effectively, express thoughts effectively, create engineering prompts for AI effectively, and engage in a lot of creative work.

They need to be someone who's able to write effectively, express thoughts effectively, create engineering prompts for AI effectively, and engage in a lot of creative work.

left and right hemispheric thinking patterns that are far different than the left brain shift memorization and almost like walk in a straight line, follow the rules, paint inside the boundaries type of rules that kids tend to be, I don't wanna use a strong word as indoctrinated, but they tend to be very, very saturated in those principles

left and right hemispheric thinking patterns that are far different than the left brain shift memorization and almost like walk in a straight line, follow the rules, paint inside the boundaries type of rules that kids tend to be, I don't wanna use a strong word as indoctrinated, but they tend to be very, very saturated in those principles

traditional school setting, whereas you want a free-thinking, free-spirited, young, creative, resilient individual who is able to look at a problem and tackle it without being able to Google it or look at the workbook or look at the manual and instead needs to think on their own two feet and think creatively.

traditional school setting, whereas you want a free-thinking, free-spirited, young, creative, resilient individual who is able to look at a problem and tackle it without being able to Google it or look at the workbook or look at the manual and instead needs to think on their own two feet and think creatively.

And most of the parents in the book were creating children like that based on educational principles that

And most of the parents in the book were creating children like that based on educational principles that

put their children in situations where they needed to think resiliently and creatively on the fly.

put their children in situations where they needed to think resiliently and creatively on the fly.