School Sucks, but Learning Doesn't Have To by jacobtothe

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hive-199420 · @jacobtothe · Jun 22 '22

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School Sucks, but Learning Doesn't Have To

The [School Sucks Project](https://schoolsucksproject.com/new-start-here/) began in 2009 when host Brett Veinotte started digging into the problems of modern education, and over the course of 732 episodes, he built a community around finding solutions to those problems. After 12 years of that podcast, he decided it was time to "graduate" and work on new projects, but he has been [releasing a top-50 series](https://feeds.fireside.fm/schoolsucks/rss) covering the highlights of the show with 10 episodes each on 5 themes.

<center>![Screenshot-2022-6-22 New Start Here .png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jacobtothe/EoCpKzznawNPY4yTZNifuEjz68Pmtj2gcYPsTYjMqKCZRfJGMgSFT8WnkBBQaZrmMJY.png)
[Screenshot source](https://schoolsucksproject.com/new-start-here/)</center>

As I draft this post, [Episode 17](https://schoolsucks.fireside.fm/essp17) is the most recent entry in this ongoing series. This is largely a repeat of Brett's [interview with Pat Farenga](https://schoolsucksproject.com/pat-farenga-the-evolution-of-unschooling-podcast-586/) of [John Holt GWS](https://johnholtgws.com/) about the work of [John Holt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holt_(educator)) and [John Taylor Gatto,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto) how kids learn versus how schools want to teach, and the diverse opportunities for real learning available to anyone willing to break the mold.

I know summer is here, and school is perhaps the last thing on your mind. If you are a parent or a student, now is the time to consider what to do when autumn rolls around and enrollment time comes again. Just ask yourself: by what metric has education improved as more money has been spent and more central control over the youth of the nation has been seized by government schools?

I suggest listening to this episode for solutions, or going through these highlight episodes to get a broader overview of the real problems and how people are making changes already. New releases are coming out every couple days, so Episode 18 may be out by the time this publishes. If you need a summer podcast binge, you could even go through the entire archive.

What are you willing to do to make change happen in your own life? Just remember,

> The schools will not improve. Higher education will not improve. The politics around these institutions will not improve. Only we can improve.
> - [The School Sucks Project](https://schoolsucksproject.com/)

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@builderofcastles · Jun 22 '22

It is interesting, that getting kids out of schools is finally starting to take hold...

Not because of the myriad reasons John Taylor Gatto gave, but because of Pretty Horny Poney Reading Hour.

Unfortunately, if i had children i had to teach, i am unsure what i would teach them.
I know that almost the entirety of science is wrong... but we haven't developed any solid, new stuff to teach.
I am unsure what i would teach about history... fortunately Tom Woods has a lot of episodes and classes

Anyway, we have only begun to disentangle that shit that was schooling, into something that could be considered learning.

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@jacobtothe · Jun 22 '22

> I know that almost the entirety of science is wrong... 

How do you know?

Are you arguing that there is a fundamental flaw in the scientific method, increasing compartmentalization leads to errors, the journals and their process of "peer review" has been cast into doubt, theoretical physics leads to too many chains of assumptions, or political and corporate influences have distorted the human factor?

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@builderofcastles · Jun 22 '22

$0.07

Going back to my first post on STEEM

The Michelson-Morley experiment is wrong.
The M-M experiment "proved" that the aether doesn't exist.

But, in fact, it was barely an experiment, only looked at one possible aether configuration (not even the most popular), and THEY FOUND SOMETHING and called it nothing.

So, yes Dorthy, the aether does exist, and so, everything after M-M, including Einstein and Hawkins is completely, provably,  wrong.

The Electric Universe model is FAR better at explaining the universe and what it does.

The current "Gravity is an effect of mass" model has been debunked so many times, that we should not even be discussing it these days.  But still is the ONLY model taught to science students.
(Instead, we fix and patch the gravity-mass system.  We now have "dark matter".  Matter, that we cannot see or detect, but has to be there so that the gravity-mass system works)

BTW, flying saucers are REALLY easy, if you have accurate science.  But are almost impossible to figure out if you have gone down the wrong path for over 100 years.

👍 jacobtothe

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@myjob · Jun 23 '22

I am glad that all of my kids are grown and I no longer have to deal with the school system.

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@scribblingramma · Jun 25 '22

I home schooled my kids most of the time, and am glad I did. I am also glad I don't have to teach them now.

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