Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
Blake Boles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if you don't, then I'm not going to 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, 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 highly asymmetric kids in terms of their content knowledge.
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, that's a good pun.
I didn't even try for that one.
Gosh.
And, and, but that has not been a major liability for me because the way that modern life works is we find something that we're, we're good at, that we can excel at, where we can form a community and have connections.
And we focus on that.
And that's what unschoolers are doing.
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