Welcome to season three of the podcast A Brave Writers Life in Brief. I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

If children live and breathe and use information in this world here and now, then it doesn't really

make much sense to be educating them in any other way.

One of the core purposes or core drivers of education should be to empower people to be

able to create or sustain their own sense of well-being. Today I'm thrilled to introduce you to Terry Hike, the founder and director of TeachThot,

one of the world's leading progressive learning brands.

Terry Hike is a former English teacher turned Education Dreamer, who is interested in how learning is changing in a digital and connected world. Teach Thoughts Philosophy of

Education dovetails beautifully with our own here at Brave Rider. In this

episode we discuss the trends in education and how we can apply those insights to the

home environment and I just got to say I'm a big fan girl of this blog I read it all the

time and I'm so thrilled to finally get to talk to Terry directly.

Welcome to the podcast Terry.

Thank you. I'm very happy to be here and that was a wonderful introduction.

Well I just love your work.

I think the thing that we have in common is that I am all about the now, not the then.

You know, so much of home education romanticizes like the early 20th

century and I want our fans and our families to be brought into the 21st century.

I get that that's your vision too I think.

Yeah I one kind of simple way to talk about that I guess is to just talk about the word homeschooling. I'm not at all

pleased with that as a word and I've proposed different alternatives to the word homeschooling because it's certainly not

exclusively done at the home and it's definitely not schooling so at least in so far as the

word school and its its connotation kind of exists today.

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