290: Worldschooling: Beyond The Three R’s – Joshua Sheats
Apr 1, 2024
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Guest Joshua Sheats, financial planner, discusses modern education skills, removing outdated content, and using stories for learning. Topics include skill sets for success, the importance of foundational knowledge, unschooling, narrative-based teaching, and maximizing learning potential in the information age.
Key skills beyond the 'Three Rs' for success in today's world include coding and persuasion.
Teaching content is essential despite information accessibility; base knowledge enhances learning and problem-solving.
Contextual learning improves retention; use stories for effective vocabulary acquisition and integration of new concepts.
Deep dives
The Importance of Developing Foundational Skills for Success in Modern Life
In the podcast episode, the host discusses the core skills essential for success in modern life, highlighting a framework that includes reading, writing, arithmetic, coding, and persuasion. These foundational skills are considered crucial as they are broadly applicable across different fields and provide a base for effective learning and problem-solving.
The Need for Teaching Both Content and Skills in Education
While some argue for focusing solely on teaching skills due to the availability of information through technology, the podcast asserts the significance of teaching content and knowledge. Referencing the book 'Why Knowledge Matters' by Edie Hirsch, the episode emphasizes that having a base level of knowledge enhances learning by allowing individuals to make connections and retain information more effectively.
Effectiveness of Learning in Context
The episode highlights the importance of learning in context as a powerful method for effective retention of information. Using examples like learning vocabulary within stories rather than through isolated memorization, the discussion emphasizes that contextual learning leads to stronger retention, efficient learning, and better integration of new concepts.
Balancing Interest-Based Learning with Structured Education Approaches
The podcast delves into various educational philosophies, including textbook-based education, genuine unschooling, and an intelligently designed program of education as a balance between interest-based learning and structured approaches. Recommendations are made for combining personalized attention with systematic curriculum to optimize learning outcomes.
Optimizing Learning Techniques and Approaches
The episode explores the significance of optimizing learning techniques through active recall and deliberate practice, drawing on research that emphasizes the effectiveness of testing for long-term retention of information. By focusing on personalized and efficient learning methodologies, individuals can achieve mastery in different areas with dedicated practice over time.
In the second installment of our three-part series, where we discuss everything but finance, Joshua and I delve further into the subject of education and how worldschooling his own five children has altered his ideas about what makes a “well-educated man.” Enjoy!Joshua is an expert financial planner who teaches normal people how to seamlessly connect the science of financial planning with the joy of goal achievement. He is the host of the Radical Personal Finance podcast and, as you’ll hear in this episode, is also passionate about education and worldschooling with his five children.
TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH JOSHUA SHEATS
Find out what two key skills Joshua has added to the “Three Rs” that every person needs to grasp to succeed in today’s world.
Hear why Joshua believes it’s fallacious that just because information is available at our fingertips, we shouldn’t still be teaching content to our children.
Learn what change in approach led to the absolute destruction of the French educational system’s outcomes.
Uncover the secret of how I am able to process information from audiobooks at 3x speed. People don’t believe me, but it’s true!
Hear Joshua expertly break down the three contexts of education that people grapple with.
Find out what surprised me about Joshua’s evolving thoughts about textbooks, which I absolutely loathe.
Learn why Joshua and I both see the tremendous value in learning certain subjects through stories rather than through more standard academic approaches.
Discover what attributes Joshua believes are embodied by a “well-educated man.”
Listen in to learn about the caveats Joshua and I both add to our own “unschooling” philosophies.
By the end of this episode, you will have a brand new perspective on the subject of learning, whether you are a homeschooling parent or just a well-educated adult yourself.
As you can tell from this conversation, Joshua is incredibly knowledgeable about education. Most of his knowledge was acquired directly through the education of his own children while travelling the world. As an unschooling father myself, I have gleaned so much knowledge from Joshua’s experience.This conversation went so well that it kept going close to another hour, which we will present to you this Wednesday in part three of my discussion with Joshua Sheats. See you then!
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