As a high school dropout and aspiring philosopher of self-education, I salute you.
My son is homeschooled, and the homeschooling consists of… nothing. He studies spontaneously to solve problems that are authentic to him, just as I do. Mostly these involve video games and online fantasy role-playing games. It’s like A.S. Neill’s Summerhill school except he’s all alone. There are disadvantages to this sort of education, but inauthenticity is not among them.
I am writing a book along these lines. It’s about how we can creates ourselves as individual thinkers. It’s called How I Learn Stuff: Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar (old draft is temporarily online at http://www.satisfice.com/hils.pdf. The book itself should be finished in a few months).
As a high school dropout and aspiring philosopher of self-education, I salute you.
My son is homeschooled, and the homeschooling consists of… nothing. He studies spontaneously to solve problems that are authentic to him, just as I do. Mostly these involve video games and online fantasy role-playing games. It’s like A.S. Neill’s Summerhill school except he’s all alone. There are disadvantages to this sort of education, but inauthenticity is not among them.
I am writing a book along these lines. It’s about how we can creates ourselves as individual thinkers. It’s called How I Learn Stuff: Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar (old draft is temporarily online at http://www.satisfice.com/hils.pdf. The book itself should be finished in a few months).