213: Self-Directed Learning (Why You Can Quit HS & Be Okay)

This is the second of two episodes on homeschooling and self-directed learning. My guest is writer, speaker, and fellow podcaster Blake Boles, whose work invites students and families to re-evaluate the traditional schooling model--are the typical high school and college experiences really the best ways to spend your time? On this episode we discuss: 

• Can you (really) quit high school and not totally ruin your life?
• Why is this the best time ever for self-directed learning?
• How can we all be more self directed learners? 
• Why you should: Google everything, Email strangers, and Find your nerd clan
• The benefits of skipping college (or at least taking a gap year)
• How to know if you’re making a decision for you (and not your parents)?

A warning: Listen too closely to this episode and it could mean that this is the very last College Essay Guy podcast episode you listen to… and that could be a very cool thing.

Resources:

Average is Over

A Case Against Education

Off Trail Learning Podcast

The Self Driven Child

Dumbing us Down

The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Unschooled

Penelope Trunk

Excellent Sheep

The Nurture Assumption

The Alliance of Self-Directed Education

Not Back to School Camp

Camp Stomping Ground

Unschooled Adventures