Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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And we've put them in this holding chamber we call school, give them a bunch of make work, act like it's really
Really important, but really it's a big signaling game.
They have to jump through all these hoops to prove that they are conscientious, slightly conformist workers.
It's school is more about uh it makes it easy for employers to sort potential applicants.
That is what I've determined, and that's what I explained in the book to be a big function of the conformity.
Conventional school system, in addition to it merely being uh a childcare service and also a social welfare service provider.
So there's all this stuff that um I wanted to share with the world that I think fills in a lot of the gaps and the doubts that parents have when they hear about alternative options, when they hear about homeschooling, unschooling, radical alternative schools.
They say, Okay, that will work for some kids, but I don't think it's a safe route for my kid.
And so I just brought together all of the best arguments from the domains of parenting, anthropology,
higher education studies, uh, and I just threw it all into one place.
And I said, here are all the reasons why if your kid is not doing well in conventional school, you should stop forcing them to go to conventional school.
I would like to believe that, Debbie, but I am really skeptical about that.
I think that the institution of conventional schooling, especially public schools, is really powerful.
It's something that all of us want to believe in.
We want to believe we can make it work.
And also it has that really important practical function of just taking care of kids and keeping them safe and warm and you know, hopefully not abused.
During the day while their parents are working.
And that's not going to go away.
And so I am actually quite skeptical about whether this will lead to any large-scale changes or large-scale reassessment of how we're doing schooling or we need to make it more individualized.
Maybe this will mean that there's going to be more blended learning as we move forward, because a lot of people have seen the power of online distance learning, but I don't think that's
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