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

We welcome Brett Veinotte, host of the School Sucks Project. We discuss the role of schooling, its effects and the relationship with self esteem and deschooling, including bringing in some ideas from Nathaniel Branden.

In this episode we go deep into what wounds and damages school likely had on you. Contents include: The grim reality of what it is and what it does Schooling’s history - Your own (and everyone’s) generational history Schooling’s true purpose in creating soldiers and workers - Indoctrination - Ruining critical thinking - Creating dependence The institutions that are fighting for it: - You parents - Your neighbors - Your peers - Your school system - The industrial and service economy - The government The ten lessons of schooling (note: write these in how they are inflicted upon the reader) Gatto’s seven lessons of school: - Confusion - Class position - Indifference - Emotional dependency - Intellectual dependency - Provisional self esteem - Constant surveillance (One can’t hide) Veinotte’s three lessons of school: - Apathy – Covered this one with Gatto’s indifference - Obedience - Conformity Other damaging effects (these could be reordered or categorized) How we learn and our relationship to knowledge wi

A detailed discussion with Thaddeus Russell on school history, renegade history, and alternatives in education. Thaddeus is the author of "A Renegade History of the United States" and founder of Renegade University. He works as a college professor teaching history and other topics.

A detailed discussion with Peter Gray, Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 7th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. He did his undergraduate study at Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Rockefeller University. His current research and writing focus primarily on children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. His own play includes not only his research and writing, but also long distance bicycling, kayaking, back-woods skiing, and vegetable gardening.

Welcome to the “deschool yourself” podcast. Healing the fifteen thousand hour infliction of public school. This eight-part podcast series explores the effects of schooling and its impact on our ability to flourish as productive, independent and happy adults. This series provides insights on how to reverse the negative effects of schooling for a better view of oneself and the world. Hosted by Zak Slayback and Jeff Till. This installment is an introduction to the podcast series.