Blake Boles

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Math.

But when this unschooler decides that she wants to go to college.

The same story happens over and over again.

They figure out very quickly what they need to do to achieve this longer term goal.

For example, I want to go to college so I can study marine biology, because marine biology is cool.

That's something that they've they've figured out in all of the the freedom and self direction that you've given them.

Uh then a kid has a serious, intrinsically motivated reason to get their act together and learn math.

And this happens super quickly.

Um the Sudbury Valley School, a famous democratic free school.

In Massachusetts, uh has a wonderful story about a multi-age group of kids at their school where no one is forced to learn anything.

Um, who said, We want to learn basic math.

And they asked one of the founding members of the school to teach them math.

And the founding member was like,

I don't think you really want to learn math.

Like somebody's putting you up to this, right?

And they said, No, we want to learn math.

We want you to teach us.

And he said, All right, I'm going to choose the most boring eighteen ninety-eight math primer uh, you know, that I can find.

And we're just gonna do drill and kill.

You know, it's gonna be pure math and you gotta do your homework, you gotta show up on time.

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