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 desire to deschool
Getting rid of school behavior and thought process
- Releasing the school/work mentality
- Get off the conveyor belt (or the treadmill)
- Developing intrinsic self-esteem
- Knowing what you don’t want to do
- Rejecting appeals to authority
- Reassessing obligation
- Decoupling your identity from school, university and job
Lifetime learning
- Rekindling a love of learning
- Just in time learning vs. just in case learning
- Getting an education
- Becoming the learner that fits you
Taking control of your life
- Creating and value creation
- Entrepreneurship or the entrepreneur heart.
- Rethinking your schedule
- Ending permission-seeking
- Willingness to accept the possibility that what you love is something you have yet to discover
- Embracing risk
- Calculating the cost of risk and change (there’s usually none)
- Creating your own voice (writing, podcasting, video)
