Dr. Christy Bock

heck yeah man but i did i hated school and i you know i was undiagnosed dyslexic and so it's one of those things that we train kids to have that structure you you you go to school at 7 45 you do this you do that and they're never able to able to be free thinkers they're never able to think outside of the box to be able to go so then they get to college and they're like oh

Holy crud.

I can sleep in.

Well, I'm going to sleep in and miss my class or I could do this.

And so unfortunately, we're not really preparing kids for that next step in their lives, even though we think we are.

You know, I have a daughter who it's her freshman year in college right now, and she did extremely well in school, like national law, all of these things that she's supposed to do.

Well, that's great for high school, but like in college, it's like, well, okay, I have to be able to think outside of the box.

I need to be able to problem solve and we're not giving kids those skills.

So there's a lot of charter schools and a lot of schools that are trying to kind of move through that where, you know, there's even entrepreneur type high schools now.

Where they're championing students who want to be entrepreneurs, trying to cater to those students who do think outside of the box.

Because I'm an entrepreneur, and I was never, oh, let's stay within my nice little box, point A to point B. I was the one that went from here to here to here to here to here, and I got in trouble for it.

So in school, I got in trouble for...

kind of giving in to the way my brain works because it's not the normal, but yet in real life, the way my brain works is awesome because it allows like me to problem solve.

And I've been able to disrupt education and be able to do things that I've been able to do because I think so differently.

So it's, it's just, we need to encourage that in schools so that our students can, um,

get out there and do things with the way their brain truly works, as opposed to being kind of kept in this little space that that's not beneficial for them.

Yep.

Absolutely.

I completely agree.

I think that we, you know, you take kids from high school and then you send them away to school.