Blake Boles

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 146a: Self-Directed Learning Advocate Blake Boles on Unschooling · 9 Dec 2022 podcast

And that's a very satisfying thing to be the person on top of the pile in this kind of weird false hierarchy that we've created called school.

But I remember at some point, maybe in high school, looking to my left and right and seeing the kids who

who were in the middle or the bottom of that hierarchy.

And really, you know, what have I done to earn this place as the star student?

I really feel like I just sort of stumbled into it kind of because my personality matched the kind of personality that school demanded.

And to be one of the other students who is constantly being

chastised and reprimanded and being told either explicitly or implicitly that they are dumb, they are stupid, then really worthless.

Year after year.

Yeah, that's a traumatizing experience.

I'm working on a new book right now.

And the premise for the introduction is

is that one day we are going to look back on institutional schooling the same way that today we look back upon child labor and we look back upon foot binding of women in China, which happened for almost a millennium, slavery even.

It's going to look like this thing where we're going to think, oh my God, how did most people just accept this as the normal default okay thing to do?

Almost everyone was complicit in it.

So that's the gravity of the situation in my eyes.

Hey, many other people started it a long time before me.

I'm just picking up the pieces and trying to put them together in a new and interesting way.

Yeah, definitely.

And I think we need to be careful about kind of cause and effect here because it might be that unschooled kids succeed as highly self-directed adults because they were born that way.

They were just born wanting to take a more creative or entrepreneurial path or just being more nonconformist in general.

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