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The Higherside Chats

Kerry McDonald | The Unschooling Movement & The Many Pitfalls Of Conventional Education

The Higherside Chats

Greg Carlwood

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, News, News Commentary

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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About Today's Guest: Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. Kerry's research interests include homeschooling and schooling alternatives, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.

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0:00.0

The planets popping masters on the shore, they have a plan.

0:17.0

It's clearly maybe something they'll be on the realm of man.

0:22.0

Until we've thoroughly tested every last close chest in view.

0:26.0

Find the more you think you know what you really do.

0:32.0

Where will we be without THC?

0:36.0

We know the lion too, it's just don't know what degree.

0:40.0

Where will we be without THC?

0:45.0

The eyes that check joy.

0:50.0

Okay, God wouldn't come for me.

1:01.0

Race yourself people from sunny San Diego, I'm Greg Carlwood and it's pretty clear society is on shaky ground.

1:08.0

With too many people living under a high degree of stress and irritation, with very little direction in their lives.

1:14.0

And if we reverse engineer many of our problems and why so many adults seem behind and creative problem solving, discernment, emotional intelligence and independent thinking.

1:24.0

All roads lead to having to take a good hard look at the education system in this country.

1:29.0

Not only have we been slowly slipping further down the list in most major categories for as long as I've been alive,

1:35.0

but our mandated school system seems to have been quite possibly crafted with ill intent from the ground up.

1:42.0

Investors in the system just looking to get more bodies on the assembly line as opposed to nurturing anyone that could actually become their competition.

1:49.0

Emphasizing gold star accumulation and paths on the head from authority figures over almost anything else.

1:55.0

Breaking down the independent spirit of children in exchange for a regimented oppressive structure that is a closer match to prison than an optimal learning environment.

2:04.0

Conditioning us to respond to bells and lockstep and preparing us for an adulthood where your work is never really done.

2:12.0

And those who can't conform are often labeled as slow from an incredibly early age or drugged until they feel appropriately numb.

2:17.0

And if this all might sound like I'm going a bit too far, take a good look at the quality of food offered to our growing youth that some of the most important times in their development and tell me if it seems like they want optimized healthy robust children.

2:30.0

Well, lucky for us there are incredible people out there fighting for much better alternatives like today's guest Carrie McDonald.

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