30. (S3E1) Susan Wise Bauer on Homeschooling Culture & Rethinking School

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

Books, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Arts, Education

4.8 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Susan Wise Bauer is best known for writing her homeschooling classic, The Well-Trained Mind, and she is a trusted authority in the homeschooling community. Her new book, Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education, will be available later this year.

Susan also has a uniquely comprehensive understanding of the history of the home education movement because she’s been a student, a teacher, and a homeschool business owner.

We are starting this series about Brave Shifts with Susan because we want to learn, from her unique perspective, how the culture of homeschooling and education can shift to become even more powerful and effective in families around the world.

You can download show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/

Resources:

You can download Free Writing Lessons here: http://go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons
Pre-order Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education by Susan Wise Bauer
Learn more about Susan: SusanWiseBauer.com | Twitter | Facebook

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to season three of the podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.
0:05.2	I'm Julie Bogart, your host.
0:07.6	As each of my children age and become some fantastic individual that I never dreamed possible,
0:18.0	I realize how out of control that is for me. I think that when a kid is struggling academically,
0:28.2	we desperately try to fix the kid. We don't try to fix the system.
0:35.0	Welcome to season 3 of the Brave Writer podcast. Today, episode 1 features a friend, a colleague, and an ally in the home education
0:48.2	mission to help our kids and our families thrive around learning and being a family.
0:55.0	I am excited for you to get to talk to this guest with me.
0:59.0	We're going to look at the culture of homeschooling, how it's changed since the 1970s, what are some of its opportunities and limits in the future.
1:08.0	I also am excited to share this interview with you because I learned so much from this guest back when I was
1:16.8	home educating and it seems to me that we have a mutual regard for one another and an ability to help bring this homeschooling
1:25.4	movement into the 21st century to help parents feel liberated from the tyranny of
1:31.0	idealism and the fear that we are somehow failing.
1:35.0	Today I invite you to relax, to consider your homeschool in a new light,
1:41.1	and to be willing to make the brave shifts you need to to find joy and learning as a natural
1:46.9	outcome of your home education commitment. Please welcome today's guest with me.
2:01.0	Susan Wiesbower calls herself an accidental homeschooling guru. She was educated at home by pioneering parents in the 1970s back
2:06.0	when home education was still unheard of. She learned Latin at age 10, worked as a
2:10.8	professional musician while still in high school and wrote three unpublished
2:15.0	novels before she turned 16.
2:17.4	Kind of an overachiever, don't you think?
2:19.6	Susan and her husband have four children that they in turn have homeschooled but Susan is
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