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 if you don't, then I'm not gonna teach you.
So they all said yes and essentially these kids covered
I think six years.
of academic of school math.
In 20 contact hours.
And so yeah, per so perhaps that's an exceptional story.
But the principle 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.
That's why unschooling can lead to
to highly asymmetric kids in terms of their their content knowledge.
Uh they might be really into Pokemon Go, they might be really into
Studying marine biology and they might be completely devoid of these other subjects.
But you know what?
So are most adults.
Like I'm pretty good at thinking and writing and speaking about alternative education.
My marine biology is in the tank.
And and that's actually that's a good pun.
I didn't even try for that one, gosh.
And uh and but that has not been a major liability for me because the way that modern life works is we find something
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