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Welcome to the “deschool yourself” podcast. Healing the fifteen thousand hour infliction of public school. This eight-part podcast series explores the effects of schooling and its impact on our ability to flourish as productive, independent and happy adults. This series provides insights on how to reverse the negative effects of schooling for a better view of oneself and the world. Hosted by Zak Slayback and Jeff Till.
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I was interviewed on the "More than Ordinary" podcast by AnnMaria DeMars. AnnMaria is the CEO of 7 Generation Games, an educational software company. She's also a Judo champion and activist for Native American causes. She's the homeschooling mother of famous fighter and actress Ronda Rousey.We talk homeschooling, so there's a lot of repeat if you'v…
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In this installment, we explore getting help with deschooling and helping others, including spouses and children.Helping others deschool- How to talk with others about school and deschoolingo Convincing themo Not pissing them off- Friends and family- Your parents- Homeschooling your childrenWhat if you are currently in college or high school?- If y…
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Praxis Education Director T.K. Coleman joins us to talk about next steps in the deschooling process.Themes we discuss include:Self-analysis - Deciding whether you are a school- Do you have wounds from school? Are you schooled (we’ve covered this, but it should be a formal self-analysis with serious thought)- Do you desire individuation? Do you desi…
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Zak and Jeff talk about the difference between schooling and education. Topics include:School learning:- Being taught that learning is a grind, learn to hate learning- Memorization- Instructor-based learning – The lecture, 5,000 year old teaching technology- Learning by "not doing"- Testing and grades- Forgetting after the test- Absence of free pla…
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In this episode we go deep into what wounds and damages school likely had on you.Contents include: The grim reality of what it is and what it doesSchooling’s history - Your own (and everyone’s) generational historySchooling’s true purpose in creating soldiers and workers- Indoctrination- Ruining critical thinking- Creating dependenceThe institution…
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A detailed discussion with Thaddeus Russell on school history, renegade history, and alternatives in education.Thaddeus is the author of "A Renegade History of the United States" and founder of Renegade University. He works as a college professor teaching history and other topics.Par Zak Slayback and Jeff Till
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A detailed discussion with Peter Gray, Ph.D., research professor at Boston College, is author of Free to Learn (Basic Books, 2013) and Psychology (Worth Publishers, a college textbook now in its 7th edition). He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology. He did his undergraduate stu…
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Welcome to the “deschool yourself” podcast.Healing the fifteen thousand hour infliction of public school.This eight-part podcast series explores the effects of schooling and its impact on our ability to flourish as productive, independent and happy adults. This series provides insights on how to reverse the negative effects of schooling for a bette…
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Here we go deep into public schooling and home education again, figuring out if school is or should be a form of poorness/poverty. We talk about the dead whore in the bathtub, how awful school really is, how parents don't spend time with their kids, how to talk home education, what types of people went to school, helicopter parenting, conditioning …
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Is libertarianism a political failure? Why enthusiastically yes! Here we talk about little corners of libertarianism, ask about Rawls' veil of ignorance, the joyful libertarian discovery process, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson and libertarian politicians, your relationship with commerce, becoming an anarchist, libertarian guilt and what you are supposed to…
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Praxis CEO, public free thinker and BFF Isaac Morehouse joins me to expand on a Facebook post he wrote on "doublespeak" or "doublethink" where a policy idea is mistaken (or purposefully replaced) a more genuine objective or desire. Here we talk myths about school, the law, the military, welfare, and regulation. Enjoy!…
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Today I explore the idea of whether government is cooperation or collaboration, whether anarchy is like the existence of bears or sharks based on an email and conversation from my friend Chris, local government, the nature of ants and bees, a book report on Edward O. Wilson's "The meaning of human existence", the nature of democracy, collaboration …
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I discuss the third component that would suggest a country is fascist which is militarism (combined with corporatist economics and nationalism). Do we need our leaders to dress up in general's uniforms to be militaristic, or is it our ethics and investments that indicate militarism? Discussed is the history of the military and US wars, a look at th…
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In this episode, I discuss how being constantly 'busy' is probably a bad thing and that most people don't properly balance their time with their consumption and life changes. I try to make the case that being "acceptably busy" is a conformist notion that has spread to every aspect of people's lives. I steal a clip of Tim Ferriss. I also bizarrely g…
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In part two of "my struggle", I recount my past from post-college on, including my life in Boston, my jobs at companies like AT Kearny, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and others, the formation of my company, my TASM Lab music albums, my band the Hudson Debacle, my marriage, my kids and more. Along the way I explain what life lesson I learned through my va…
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I discuss the basis of my worldview, including anarchism, peaceful parenting, atheism, unschooling, and personal freedom as context for previous and future podcasts. I also discuss my hobbies such as music and art, and give a much too long story about my childhood, teen and college years. Part one of two.…
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Jeff discusses the upcoming technology singularity where tech gets so good that we can't tell what great new thing is coming next. VR! Driverless cars! Artificial intelligence! Nanotech! Life extension! He then explores why he's optimistic about technological unemployment, not so optimistic about the idea of a "basic Income guarantee" and a new ide…
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Today we discuss how sacred the idea of "separation of church and state" is to our national dialogue. Yet, for many of us, there are more issues even MORE sacred than religion. How about healthcare? Or consumption? Or family itself? Are we hurting children by not separating them from the state and keeping them separate from the market? This is a qu…
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Explorations of my recent Disney Dream ocean cruise, an analysis of different types of entertainment, the failure of the kids club, why people go on vacation to be uncomfortable, how Disney owns Star Wars in worse ways than you thought, the poor cruise ship workers and our Western fate, when I worked at Disney, and parental death as both plot devic…
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We explore whether American nationalism is a feature of American fascism or just a good healthy dose of collectivism. Topics include Reagan, Bush and Obama, The Flag, the pledge of allegiance, fascism, nationalism in the media and music, kids patriotic school songs, history class, Toby Keith, "Made in America", the Superbowl and the might New Engla…
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In this podcast, Jeff Till recounts his own history with Star Wars, reflects on the unique emotional power of the Star Wars saga, explores different fan types, talks Star Wars tattoos, reviews the new "Episode 7: The Force Awakens", reads about the Disney acquisition and the expanded universe, George Lucas's philanthropy and possible estate plannin…
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Our Funny Government or "Little Piles of Garbage"A look at different aspects of government that are strange or curious from a libertarian point of view. Podcast includes: - Little piles of garbage - Did you what Amazon did? - I've got an idea! - Government likes art and culture! - Strangers who live a thousand miles away - Partisan dog poop gourmet…
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