Deschool Yourself With Zak Slayback And Jeff Till

In this installment, we explore getting help with deschooling and helping others, including spouses and children. Helping others deschool - How to talk with others about school and deschooling o Convincing them o Not pissing them off - Friends and family - Your parents - Homeschooling your children What if you are currently in college or high school? - If you went - If you are in school - Options for pre-college people - Not going/dropping out/rising above - Praxis and other programs Wrap-up - Our recommend reading/media list Gatto Holt Illich Lewellen Peter Gray Productivity and success books - 4HWW, Getting things done - Napoleon Hill Nathaniel Branden, six pillars of self esteem SSP Renegade University Praxis blog Don’t do stuff you hate

Praxis Education Director T.K. Coleman joins us to talk about next steps in the deschooling process. Themes we discuss include: Self-analysis - Deciding whether you are a school - Do you have wounds from school? Are you schooled (we’ve covered this, but it should be a formal self-analysis with serious thought) - Do you desire individuation? Do you desire to deschool Getting rid of school behavior and thought process - Releasing the school/work mentality - Get off the conveyor belt (or the treadmill) - Developing intrinsic self-esteem - Knowing what you don’t want to do - Rejecting appeals to authority - Reassessing obligation - Decoupling your identity from school, university and job Lifetime learning - Rekindling a love of learning - Just in time learning vs. just in case learning - Getting an education - Becoming the learner that fits you Taking control of your life - Creating and value creation - Entrepreneurship or the entrepreneur heart. - Rethinking your schedule - Ending permission-seeking - Willin

Zak and Jeff talk about the difference between schooling and education. Topics include: School learning: - Being taught that learning is a grind, learn to hate learning - Memorization - Instructor-based learning – The lecture, 5,000 year old teaching technology - Learning by "not doing" - Testing and grades - Forgetting after the test - Absence of free play - Not taught critical thinking. Extrinsic incentives and punishments for ‘learning’ Do you know how to learn intrinsically? Does your relationship or experience with learning block you now from learning new things, taking chances, improving your self worth/self esteem Good education/learning - Learning is life-long and constant - The way you really learn today personally, in your work, for your hobbies, in your relationships, for fun - Resetting priorities on what is necessary or desirable to learn, not through a curriculum developed by bureaucrats, but through you interests and real-life needs - Intrinsic learning – learning as its own reward - Becoming