It’s always worth creating and playing your own games, regardless of what you do about the web of other games intersecting your life. It’ always worth identifying the meta-game unique to you; your own search for meaning.
Tag: education
How to Prepare for Nothing?
Most people aren’t looking for the best way to get from A to B, or even from A to discovering what B might be for them. Most people are looking to be given queues on what other people will think is normal. Seeking normal is a mind killer
Reliable Sources
Where do you go to get reliable accounts of news, weather, and sports? I recently surveyed my students in 4 computer literacy classes regarding this information. On reviewing the results, I stressed to them that a “good” source was no better than its reliability, and furthermore its alignment with the goals of the seeker.
Children and Developed Nations
Do developed societies have fewer children? What does it mean to be “developed,” in today’s world? The thing most developed in such nations is the government. It’s big, costly, and intrusive.
How Should We Answer Our Children’s Questions? (7m) – Editor’s Break 034
Editor’s Break 034 looks at answering questions posed by our children, particularly difficult ones like, “Is God real?”
Superstitions Regarding School
My family has been on our unschooling journey for going on six years now. Within that time I have had the opportunity to meet countless other unschooling parents, families and people raised with unschooling, both online and in person. What I have learned has revealed to me bit by bit the superstitious nature that is the belief in the necessity of school, or other forms of compulsory education.
Read for Reconfiguration
A book is not a trophy. It’s a tool for personal transformation. For Kafka, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Education isn’t a name dropping contest. It’s a paradigm-shifting process. It’s an opportunity to have our perspectives and presuppositions challenged from every angle.
Hasidic Jews and the Bane of Humanity (7m) – Peaceful Anarchism 023
Peaceful Anarchism 023, “Is it immoral and evil for Hasidic Jews to populate a region, take over control of town and State governments, get on school board of education, and slowly reform the public school system?”
Discriminate in the Lessons You Learn
Be very careful listening to people who believe in governing others, or who believe it’s OK to archate. When someone starts from a position that far off-base, you will need to be extra cautious in analyzing everything else they say.
Why The Degree is Dying (and Being Replaced by Something Better)
What is a degree? It purports to be a bundle of goods – knowledge, network, social experience, and a permission slip to compete for certain jobs. It’s only one of these. The permission slip, or credential, intended to signal your ability to employers, is the product. That is the thing being bought and sold. The rest is window dressing.