SELF School🚀

Self-directed Empowerment and Learning for Families

A - Apply what you learn 🔥
C - Create what you imagine 💭
E - Earn what you deserve 💰

[SELF School🚀 @_SELFSchool]

Question everything, truth you shall find.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Teach your students
• to doubt,
• to think,
• to communicate,
• to question,
• to make mistakes,
• to learn from their mistakes, and most importantly
• have fun in their learning.

[Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️ @HippyMomPhD]

Your Ultimate Homeschool Book Starter list👇

Brought to you by X's amazing Homeschool Community❤️

School Can Wait
A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille
Weapons of Mass Instruction Gatto
The lost tools of learning by Dorothy SayersThe
Teaching from Rest by Sarah McKenzie
The Art of Learning by Josh WaitzkinFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Raising Critical Thinkers by Bogart
Rethinking School by Bauer
Read-Aloud Family
The Talent Code
introduction to the Nature Study Handbook by Anna Comstock
Better Late than Early
For Childrens Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Teach Your Own by John Holt
Home Education by Charlotte Mason \
Know Tell by Karen Glass
The Three R’s by Ruth Beechick
Writing Revolution and Knowledge Gap, Wexler
Why Knowledge Matters.The Read Aloud Handbook
Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling By Lea Ann Garfias
The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
Family Matters by David Guterson
Teenage Liberation Handbook
Wild+Free Family
For the Children's Sake. Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School
The Knowledge Gap, Wexler
Why Don’t Students Like School?, Willingham;
The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse
A place to belong, Johnston
Modern Miss Mason, Boden
How to read a book by Mortimer Adler
Hold onto your kids
Philosophy and the young child
Outwitting the devil
The Dumbing Down of America, Iserbyt

Can't thank my community enough for my new reading list!!

Folks, if you are looking for great follows, check out everyone who commented on the post below👇❤️

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Lego company, in collaboration with a team from the Czech Republic, launched 1000 astronauts into the stratosphere aboard a mini space shuttle. The successful flight reached a height of 37 km before the helium balloon exploded. The probe has been recovered and the mini-astronauts will be put up for sale. The carefully documented project aims to introduce children to astronomy.

[Anthony Vicino @AnthonyVicino]

My dad picked me up from the South Dakota State Chess Championship when I was 13.

I tossed my trophy in the back and crawled into the passenger seat.

He asked: “How’d you do?”

Me: “I won.”

The words he said next have followed me for the past 26 years.

He said:

“Good… you were supposed to.”

I struggled beneath the weight of those words for many years.

Struggled beneath the expectation that excellence was the standard, not the exception.

I thought it meant I had to be the best at everything I did.

And so that became the metric against which I measured my worth.

Which in itself became a sort of unwinnable game…

Unwinnable because If you’re expected to win…then what real pride can you take in the victory?

Then again, if you lose… well… What the hell?

Tony Robbins said:

“Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.”

I lived that truth for years…

I tried desperately to use my achievements over others to fill that hole I felt inside of me.

That feeling of never being enough.

It took many years, many conversations with my Dad, and a whole lot of introspection to realize I’d made a mistake…

I’d misinterpreted my Dad’s question…

See, when he asked:

“How did you do?”

He wasn’t asking about the result… he could see the trophy in the backseat, afterall.

He was asking about me and my performance.

My input, not the output.

Did I play as well as I could… or did I just get by.

I think a lot about this quote from Star Trek:

“You can do everything right and still lose. That’s not weakness, that’s life.”

The reverse is also true.

You can do everything wrong and still win. That’s not strength, that’s luck.

And the truth is, I got lucky that year at State.

I didn’t play up to my ability.

In the championship round I blundered badly and should’ve lost.

That’s just life…

But here’s the lesson I’ve taken away from all this:

(and truly, it’s changed my life)

You don’t get to choose what happens to you in this life…

But you DO get to choose what those things mean.

For me, here’s how I’ve chosen to interpret that conversation with my dad all those years ago:

It’s not about being the best, it’s about doing your best.

And I think in the grand scheme of things…

If you can show up everyday and…

Just do your best…

Everything’s gonna work out just fine.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

Interesting and provocative study finds that growth mindset was not associated with better school grades, including over time as coursework became more challenging. In some cases adopting a growth mindset even harmed student's educational attainment. Taken with prior studies finding that growth mindset-- the belief that you can increase intelligence with the right mindset-- is actually not correlated with IQ whatsoever, the authors conclude: "Students are taught a belief which is predicted to be false." 😲

I am sure growth mindset improves lots of learning outcomes in life, but this study highlights the fact that one can't just growth mindset their way to learning challenging knowledge and skills. https://t.co/MkCZfHXDH1

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension.

College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is from Thomas Aquinas College in California. This is what a serious undergraduate education looks like.

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

If you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of you field.

What if we take this approach to raising and educating children?

An essay

https://t.co/YxARNjOl9c

[Hedron App @HedronApp]

Dodecahedron

https://t.co/JakJH66lcR

[GT School @gtschool]

We believe that some kids are born gifted — with unusual cognitive or creative abilities for their age.

But we also believe that any child has the power to become exceptional — to change their trajectory with focus and hard work.

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

What is the best way for someone who is out of school to dive into classics and the broader humanities?

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

The most underrated way to learn economics? YouTube 🎥

No. I don't mean for undergrads. I mean for academics and econ policy nerds!

Here are the best econ channels to learn from:

[Ben Byriel @Benbyriel]

@sweatystartup I do not use an ounce of my undergrad degree. Undergrad essentially functions as a four year, expensive application to medical school. Aside from personal life benefits and getting into med school, undergrad didn’t change the trajectory of my life much.

[GT School @gtschool]

If school took half the time, what would you spend the rest of your day doing?

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Here are the 10 most popular episodes from the Huberman Lab podcast in 2022

[Pyritohedral hypergon in blue and gold @Tom_Ruen]

Some varied tiles related to Penrose tiles. The reflexed pentagon (Patrick starfish's greens pants) seems very useful to mix, and with pentagons.

[Michael P Gibson @William_Blake]

Had a great time chatting w/ @NiklasAnzinger
on his Stranded Technologies podcast about self-education, the frontier---lots of good stuff in this one!

https://t.co/jW3gBjBKqQ

[Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham]

Last day for 25% off preorders!
“Brisk and interesting, this is a wonderful book with a wealth of practical advice.”
—Henry L. Roediger, III, co-author of author of Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
https://t.co/yIuXhuLpWv

[Elizabeth Brown @PhonicsMom]

@JustAMom47 @mandylorianM @1in5advocacy @LowellSavoy @AnitaBGreen @josie_halles @don07774637 @karenvaites @TishaRajendra One of my favorites is Pollard, from the late 1800's, very cute pictures.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Shout out to those homeschooling pioneers from the 70s and 80s who could see what was going on decades before the rest of us.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Illustration from Beauty and the Beast by Eleanor Vere Boyle, 1875.

Don't let Disney take these stories away from your children. These stories were with us before Disney existed and should be with us long after Disney is gone.