Blake Boles
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817 appearances
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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I call this the folk psychology of unschooling.
The principle is that when the kid really wants to learn something and they have their own chosen reason to learn it, then they will do it rather quickly.
And that's the power of self-directed learning.
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Thanks for having me.
I will also give a nod to communication technology.
Thank you very much.
I've been working with teens who don't go to regular school for most of my adult career.
And I didn't get into this as a young person myself.
I went to public school in California.
I went to university because I thought I wanted to be an astrophysicist.
And very quickly, I was mugged by reality and instead got into alternative education and designed my own degree to study education full time because that just seemed a lot more interesting and relevant and important.
And I started working at a summer camp after university called Not Back to School Camp, which is the preeminent summer camp for teenage unschoolers in the US.
And that's where I got to really meet a lot of these kids face to face.
And it was so inspiring to meet them and to experience what it's like to work with teenagers in this more, I guess, authentic setting.
And that inspired me to write books about them and for them and to start a company called Unschool Adventures.
through which I've taken teenage unschoolers on long-term international trips for the past 10 years.
And that's how I've been making my money.
And that's the short story, Debbie.
Yeah, it's been a great ride.
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