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‘What Do We Teach Our Kids?’

Johnny Truant, asking the inevitable big question that so many people are too afraid to ask: Just what, exactly, is the point of “education”?

My son Austin is five. The kid is brilliant. I know that all parents think their kids are smart, but this is no joke. […]

This year he’ll go off to kindergarten, and he’s going to be bored as a motherfucker. He got bored with preschool over a year ago, and the fact that he’s the oldest kid in his class isn’t helping. They have to move at the speed of the slowest kids, so as not to leave anyone behind. You get a spectrum of kids with different abilities, but it’s one class with one teacher… and so one size must fit all.

I find myself wondering about this, and other things I’ve never thought about when it comes to school, and education, and development. All the things I’ve always taken for granted as immutable truths — school starts at five and continues for thirteen years, college follows high school, job follows college — are suddenly coming into question.

All at once, I’m no longer sure that what I learned in school is what I’d most like for my kids to learn.

Truant follows by examining the nonconformist childhood backgrounds of entrepreneurs and proposing that their independent mindset may just be among the most crucial to instill in our children for the future – and how Unschooling may be the right education approach to making this all happen.