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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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Most kids go through 12+ years of school without learning how to think.
They learn math and grammar, but they never learn critical thinking.
5 skills you need to be teaching your kids (and let's be honest, most adults need to learn them too) 👇
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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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This is an 8th grade graduation exam from 1912.
8th graders then were better prepared for life in the real world than 12th graders are today.
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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids (and adults!) need to unlearn 👇
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Why are we wasting 12+ years of kids’ lives on busywork that doesn’t matter, memorizing topics they don’t care about, trapped inside a system they hate?
There’s a better way.
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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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The Greeks killed Socrates because he was "corrupting the youth" by teaching them to think for themselves.
The war waged against critical thinking is a tale as old as time.
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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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How did we collectively come to the conclusion that letting the government educate our kids was a good idea?
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The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it) 👇
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The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it) 👇
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Here are 8 cognitive biases they never taught you about in school.
No one is immune to these biases, but if you aren’t aware of them, they will keep you at the mercy of the world. 👇
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The childhoods of successful people all have one thing in common:
Adults who do things beyond the classroom to facilitate learning.
11 things you can do at home with your kids - today, and for free - to give them a leg up on their education:
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20 lessons you should be teaching your kid (that school isn't):
1. Failure isn't bad. It's one of your greatest teachers.
2. Asking "why" is your greatest weapon.
3. Just because someone's an "expert" doesn't mean they're right.
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If you want a good education for your kids, you should think twice about sending them to public school.
10 things every parent should know about America's education system 👇
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Why is it that most American parents don't realize how bad public education is?
We're 136th in the world in reading.
Only 1 in 3 students are proficient in math.
The data should be a point of national outrage - and the Dept of Education isn't hiding it.
Let's take a look ...
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The traditional school system is raising kids that:
• can't think critically
• hate learning
• are anxious and depressed
• are scared of the future
This bodes poorly for all of us.
Education needs to be of the highest priority to fix – or the consequences will be dire
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Schools don’t have a funding issue, they have an administrative surplus issue.
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20 lessons you should be teaching your kid (that school isn't):
1. Failure isn't bad. It's one of your greatest teachers.
2. Asking "why" is your greatest weapon.
3. Just because someone's an "expert" doesn't mean they're right.
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The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it) 👇
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If the in-laws are asking about your education choices this Christmas -
("Your kids are going to be weird if they don't go to public school!")
Here are 9 stats you should share with them 👇
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It’s normal for kids — especially small boys — to be restless, rambunctious, and loth to sit still.
It’s a sign of *health* to be full of energy.
They don’t need to be put on drugs to fit a boring education system. The system needs to change to fit them.
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20 lessons you should be teaching your kid (that school isn't):
1. Failure isn't bad. It's one of your greatest teachers.
2. Asking "why" is your greatest weapon.
3. Just because someone's an "expert" doesn't mean they're right.
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Public education funding keeps going up, while test scores remain the same.
The funding is not the problem.
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Subjects kids don't need:
• Algebra
• Physics
• Gender studies
• “Health” (the school version)
Subjects kids actually need:
• Negotiation
• Mental models
• Research skills
• Financial savvy
• Critical thinking
• Entrepreneurship
What would you add or take away?
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Parents: if you're looking for other options (besides public school) for your kids -
You should check out these 13 schools 👇
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Here are 8 cognitive biases they never taught you about in school.
No one is immune to these biases, but if you aren’t aware of them, they will keep you at the mercy of the world. 👇
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Public school was not designed to teach kids to think.
It was, in fact, designed around the premise that a large portion of the population didn't really need to know how to think.
And then we wonder why our kids are failing.
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Kids hate reading because they learn it coercively.
Kids hate math because it feels devoid of context.
Kids hate writing because it seems boring.
It's important to note: none of these are problems innate to reading, math, or writing.
They're all problems with instruction.
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School does a terrible job preparing kids for the real world.
It hyper-focuses on theory and barely touches the practical, and then we wonder why kids struggle after they graduate.
5 important life skills school is completely failing to teach your kids 👇
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School does a terrible job preparing kids for the real world.
It hyper-focuses on theory and barely touches the practical, and then we wonder why kids struggle after they graduate.
5 important life skills school is completely failing to teach your kids 👇
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These 8 cognitive biases aren't taught in school.
No one is immune to these biases, but if you aren’t aware of them, they will keep you at the mercy of the world. 👇
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5/6-year-olds don’t need 7 hours a day of kindergarten.
They need time outside, free play, pencils and paper, parents who read to them, space to be creative, license to build forts and castles, curiosity driven adventures.
They need space. To be kids.
That’s pretty much it.
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Homeschooling your kids?
Here are 10 resources you should know about (that can help you deliver an education better than public school ever could) 👇
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56% of adults in America can’t read at a 6th-grade level.
90%+ of adults in America went through the public education system.
Something here is not right.
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Most kids go through 12+ years of school without learning how to think.
They learn math and grammar, but they never learn critical thinking.
5 skills you need to be teaching your kids (and let's be honest, most adults need to learn them too) 👇
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8 toxic mental models you learned in school (that you have to unlearn as an adult) 👇
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The childhoods of successful people all have one thing in common:
Adults who do things beyond the classroom to facilitate learning.
11 things you can do at home with your kids - today, and for free - to give them a leg up on their education:
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One of the most surprising realizations for newly-homeschooling parents is that it only takes a couple hours a day to deliver a great education.
Most of public school time is just wasted space + childcare.
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Everybody's worried about their kids not being "socialized" if they don't go to traditional school.
But who actually wants their kids to be "socialized" anyway?
For most kids, school socialization is brutal.
Six reasons your kid is better off without it 👇
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One of the biggest flaws of traditional school?
Its obsession with teaching kids memorization.
Your kid doesn't need to memorize facts. They need to learn how to learn. 👇
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Public school enrollment is in decline.
Homeschooling is the fastest-growing education modality in the country.
Private school enrollment is steadily climbing.
The future is coming.
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Public school doesn't care if your kids learn how to think.
They care about your kids scoring well on tests so they can get more state funding.
In fact, your kids' critical thinking is at odds with that goal - because divergent thinking runs the risk of botched test scores.
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Teach your kids mental models.
• First principles
• Second-order thinking
• Inversion
• The 80/20 principle
Teach them how to use tools to break down ideas and help them think more clearly.
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Kids in public school are terrible at interacting with adults - because to them, adults are authority figures.
Kids who are homeschooled consistently blow adults away with their social skills.
And yet somehow we still spread the myth that homeschoolers are the awkward ones.
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Public school is more about babysitting and social conditioning than it is about education.
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Parents: if you're looking for other options (besides public school) for your kid this year -
You should check out these 10 schools 👇
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Almost everything you know about education is wrong.
Here are a few of the biggest fallacies:
1. "Kids need a teacher to learn."
False.
Kids are learning all the time, from everything — books, YouTube, lived experience. Kids are wired to learn. They just need space to do it.
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Education in America is going to look very different 10 years from now.
In some places, that future is already here - and there are some incredibly talented people building it.
Here are 10 of those people you should be following 👇
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1. Being passive.
Traditional school feeds you everything you need. Stand in line, follow the rules, and you'll do well.
But if you want outsized results in the real world, you need to go take what you want.
Kids need to learn how to take that ownership of their experience.
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Parents: if you're looking for other options (besides public school) for your kid -
You should check out these 10 schools 👇
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"If your child is a C in math and a star in tennis, hire a tennis coach, not a math tutor."
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Traditional school completely fails at teaching most kids how to succeed in life.
So many kids graduate feeling lost, with no clue what comes next.
School is supposed to prepare kids for the real world, not keep them distracted for 12 years, then expect them to thrive.
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Education in America is going to look very different 10 years from now.
In some places, that future is already here - and there are some incredibly talented people building it.
Here are 10 of those people you should be following 👇
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Effective academic learning can be done in only a couple hours a day.
Most of the contents of a school day are … bloat.
The bloat is allowed, because a large component of education is childcare.
But no one wants to call it childcare, so the kids have to look busy.
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Kids don't need to memorize what to think, they need to learn how to think.
7 mental models you should be teaching your kids:
1. Confirmation bias: the tendency to find information consistent with your existing beliefs.
To be strong thinkers, kids need to learn objectivity.
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So many parents know the school system sucks, but are afraid to pull their kids out.
Here are 5 reasons you should:
1. School is teaching your kids a ton of bad habits.
Passivity, cramming-and-forgetting, deference: things they have to unlearn once they enter the real world.
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Your kids do not belong to the government. They do not belong to the teacher's unions, the local school district, or some well-meaning bureaucrat who thinks they know "better."
Your kids are YOURS.
Don't let anyone bully you into believing otherwise.
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It’s not a child’s natural state to be miserable.
Their natural state is curiosity, play, and joy.
If their school is making them miserable, it’s a toxic environment and they should be extricated ASAP.
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Homeschooling parents (and parents who want to homeschool):
Here are the 7 most important things to remember:
(If you do these 7 things and nothing else, your kid will get a great education)👇
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Almost everything you know about education is wrong.
Here are a few of the biggest fallacies:
1. "Kids need a teacher to learn."
False.
Kids are learning all the time, from everything — books, YouTube, lived experience. Kids are wired to learn. They just need space to do it.
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To succeed in the adult world, your kids will need to learn fortitude.
15 mental toughness lessons to teach your kids:
1. Fortune favors the bold. Go take what you want.
2. Fitness discipline leads to life discipline. Train the body, train the mind.
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Education in America is going to look very different 10 years from now.
In some places, that future is already here - and there are some incredibly talented people building it.
Here are 10 education accounts you should be following 👇
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The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it) 👇
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School teaches kids a bunch of lessons they have to *unlearn* when they enter the real world.
A few of the worst things school is teaching your kid:
1. Following rules = success.
School rewards conformity, but the real world rewards creativity.
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The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it) 👇
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9 books every parent should read 👇
1. Free to Learn by Peter Gray
This book explores the importance of play in childhood development — and how to unlock and facilitate your kid’s instincts to play to foster their growth.
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Public school is more about babysitting and social conditioning than it is about education.
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Homeschooling your kids?
Here are 10 resources you should know about (that can help you deliver an education better than public school ever could) 👇
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Teach your kids philosophical razors.
• Occam's razor
• Hanlon's razor
• Hitchen's razor
• The Duck Test
A razor is a tool that helps cut out conclusions that aren't correct - which helps you more quickly come to the conclusions that are.
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Kids in school are:
-told to be quiet
-bullied by their peers
-stressed with test prep
-forced to sit still all day
-bored out of their minds
-kept out of the fresh air and sunlight
In any other context, we'd think this was inhumane.
Yet somehow, in school it's okay.
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2. Waiting for permission.
Traditional school requires kids to ask for permission to do anything, from reading a book to going to the bathroom.
The real world rewards those who don't wait for permission. Like the startup adage: "don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness."
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It’s normal for kids — especially small boys — to be restless, rambunctious, and loth to sit still.
It’s a sign of *health* to be full of energy.
They don’t need to be put on drugs to fit a boring education system. The system needs to change to fit them.
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9 books every parent should read 👇
1. Free to Learn by Peter Gray
This book explores the importance of play in childhood development — and how to unlock and facilitate your kid’s instincts to play to foster their growth.
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Education in America is going to look very different 10 years from now.
Microschools, online schools, apprenticeships, hybrid models.
There will be tons of options for parents to choose from.
If you want a peek at what's coming, here are 10 education accounts to follow 👇
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Mixed-age classrooms are magic.
Younger kids are inspired by watching older kids.
Older kids anchor their knowledge by teaching younger kids.
This is one of the biggest things the institutional education system is sleeping on.
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3. Deferring to authority.
School teaches kids that the adult is always right.
In reality, kids need to learn to trust their own judgment and opinions if they want to do well in life.
When kids leave school, they have to learn to trust their own inner compass again.
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Teach your kids basic economics.
Teach them about value, price theory, supply and demand.
And teach them economics as a set of mental frameworks that apply to all things of value (money, energy, time):
• foregone alternatives
• tradeoffs
• sunk cost fallacy.
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4. Learning to the test.
School rewards late-night cramming and test-it-and-forget-it learning strategies.
The only thing that matters is the test score.
In the real world, kids need to learn to the task. What really matters is what they can *do* with the knowledge they gain.
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Unpopular opinion: public school is the root of many other (seemingly unrelated) societal evils.
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Most people make it far into adulthood without ever learning how to think well.
If you teach your kid thinking skills, they'll be ahead of 99% of their peers - and carry this skill for life.
For more ideas on improving your kids' education, follow
@rebelEducator
.
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Thinking about homeschooling your kids?
Here are 9 must-have resources you should know about👇
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30 schools in Illinois have ZERO STUDENTS who can read at grade level.
Zero. Students.
Almost any other form of education is better than this.
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Teach your kids philosophy.
Expose them to:
• logic
• ethics
• metaphysics
Share with them interesting philosophical ideas (like Descartes' "I think, therefore I am"), and encourage discussion and debate.
Philosophy doesn't have to be boring. It can be relevant and useful.
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Western civilization is on the decline.
One of the biggest culprits of this demise? Our education system.
Six ways public school is destroying our culture – and the harmful lessons it’s teaching your kids 👇
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The results are in on public school in America, and it's not good.
7 things every parent should know about American education 👇
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