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**School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation**

School Sucks is a podcast, You Tube channel, and web community empowering parents and self-directed learners.
For 12 years we’ve promoted freedom in education, and we’ve called out covert indoctrination.
We discuss:
+ educational alternatives like homeschooling and unschooling
+ career freedom without college
+ the principles of self-directed learning
+ the strategies of critical thinking/information literacy
+ the rewards of self-knowledge/personal development
This is NOT a show about school reform.
The schools will not improve.
Higher education will not improve.
The politics around these institutions will not improve.
Only we can improve.

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**4. School Has Robbed Young People of Their "Why"** May 20, 2022
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The Essential School Sucks, #4 of 50

***Theme One: The Real Problems With Public School***

In 2019, teen anxiety and depression levels had reached startling new highs.
Then 2020 happened.

Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. Dan is also the main writing coach for our friends at Praxis.

He joins me for a fresh take on a familiar problem: young people are drowning and purposelessness, searching for meaning. Political operators, tech giants, and disingenuous marketers are happy to tap into that desire and angst for their own exploitative purposes, offering young people a pre-packaged "why."

John Taylor Gatto said

“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”

Instead schools are teaching dependence. And schools are producing mobs.

Students are not given adequate encouragement in authoring their own lives, with too many of them surrendering to the K-12 to college to work pipeline. Along the way, they're handed causes to embrace without question, and thus made useful to various manipulators who don't care about them.

Dan and I discuss how these young people can find their way, to rebuild their rudders and develop their own “why." Dan offers advice to both parents and educators.

Related Articles by Dan Sanchez:
School Has Robbed Young People of Their “Why”

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Originally Released November 12, 2019 As "School Has Robbed Young People of Their “Why” [PODCAST #630]"
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**3. A Powerful Voice In the FIght For School Choice** May 18, 2022
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The Essential School Sucks, #3 of 50

***Theme One: The Real Problems With Public School***

Corey DeAngelis is the director of school choice at Reason Foundation. He is also an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute.

He returns to discuss some very promising developments for school choice and educational freedom.

A great opportunity is upon us, but it's likely the real fight is just beginning.

Corey and I will also talk about the mindset and strategy that he brings to that fight.

**Mentioned: The Underground History of American Education** (Video Playlist)

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Originally Released September 14, 2020 As "[PODCAST #675] Corey DeAngelis - Educational Freedom (if you can keep it)"
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**2. The Bi-Partisan Conspiracy Against Parents and Students** May 15, 2022
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The Essential School Sucks, # 2 of 50

***Theme One: The Real Problems With Public School***

School decision-making is moving further and further away from parental control, supervision, and awareness. And this is not a new problem; it's been gradually but steadily *progressing* for over a century. It's a history worth knowing, because it affected all of us.

This episode examines the origins of, and ideologies and motives behind controversial (yet bi-partisan!) school legislation like Common Core and No Child Left Behind, and similar attempts at centralizing control in 1989, and 1967, and 1933, and 1903, depending on where you start the story.

**Mentioned: The Underground History of American Education** (Video Playlist)

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Originally Released August 6, 2012 As "Episode 155: No Child Left Behind (and Other Bi-Partisan Education Conspiracies)"
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**1. The Teacher Who Stood Up and Spoke Out** May 12, 2022
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The Essential School Sucks, # 1 of 50

***Theme One: The Real Problems With Public School***

A monologue about the courageous life and work of John Taylor Gatto, and the story of how he changed my life.
How many teachers reluctantly acknowledge the failure of mass compulsory schooling? How many become disheartened but then relegate themselves to quiet conformity? How many hunt for the villains, but simply wind up sniveling behind the closed doors of the teachers’ lounge, choosing to blame children and parents?
If you've worked in or around the public schools - or even if you simply endured the requisite 15,000 hours as a student - you're likely able to form some rough estimations for these questions.
Yet how powerful is the voice of the teacher with the conviction to take action and speak out?
In 1991, at the dawn of the information age, John Taylor Gatto was named the New York State Teacher of the Year. Within months of receiving that recognition he resigned, quite publicly, in the op-ed section of the Wall Street Journal. At this time, John was in his mid-fifties. He had a family. He had little savings, and he resided on the notoriously not-affordable island of Manhattan. It was a bold move to say the least, but it marked the beginning of a beautiful new career in education.
And he inspired many others to cut their own divergent paths.

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Originally Released November 1, 2018 As "Episode 584: Thank You John Taylor Gatto"

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The Essential School Sucks - Introduction May 11, 2022

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An introduction to the 50 most essential episodes - curated, categorized, and sequenced for a new audience.

These shows will progress through five core topics (approximately 10 shows each)

The Real Problems With School
Leaving School and Finding Educational Alternatives
The Principles of Critical Thinking and Self-Directed Learning
Personal Development
Information Literacy

If you...

have growing concerns and frustrations about institutional schooling at all levels
have children currently struggling through this experience
are looking for alternatives and support
are ready to challenge yourself

...then welcome.

School Sucks is a podcast, You Tube channel, and web community empowering parents and self-directed learners.
For 12 years we've promoted freedom in education, and we've called out covert indoctrination.

We discuss

educational alternatives like homeschooling and unschooling,
career freedom without college
the principles of self-directed learning
the strategies of critical thinking/information literacy
and the rewards of self-knowledge/personal development

This is NOT a show about school reform.
The schools will not improve.
Higher education will not improve.
The politics around these institutions will not improve.

Only we can improve.

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732: GRADUATION. Nov 10, 2021

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The final episode of the School Sucks Podcast.

After a lengthy monologue about the past and the future, the audience speaks, at the Midwest Peace and Liberty Fest. MCed by Alex "Young Alex" Bell. Organized and introduced by Joe Moutard.

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[preview] Degeneration Theory Aug 21, 2020

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Free Bonus Friday
Enjoy (and you will enjoy) a snip of one of our bonus productions for supporting listeners, including The Discomfort Zone, In Pursuit of Utopia, Picture of the Month Club, and other older selections.
Today: In Pursuit of Utopia Episode 11 - Fabianism and Degeneration
Full Show description - 19th century Victorian Era England was plagued by fears of moral, social, and biological degeneration. And these fears are making a big comeback.
Released August 21, 2020 on Patreon + A/V Club.
Full Show: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40698425
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[preview] Thoughts On the Moon Landing? Contra Cruise AMA Jul 24, 2020

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Enjoy (and you will enjoy) a snip of one of our bonus productions for supporting listeners, including The Discomfort Zone, In Pursuit of Utopia, Picture of the Month Club, and other older selections.
Today: My Speech and AMA On the Contra Cruise
Full Show description - This is audio of my two presentations on the Contra Cruise, including a speech, an impromptu workshop and an Ask Me Anything.
My speech was written as the cruise progressed and it was delivered in two parts later in the week. It was assembled from thoughts and feelings I gathered from the dinner conversations I had over the week, and it covered a set of experiences, mostly related to the crucial communication of libertarian ideas, that I felt would be useful for the attendees.
Topics Include:
Thinking Fast and Slow, Emotions are a means of discovery, the Trump election mystery solved, people overwhelmed by information, blowing up the bridges of connection, getting people to say yes vs getting them to acknowledge why they're saying no, the NPC meme, lessons from dating, School Sucks Across America, measuring freedom in different areas of life, fallacies of addition and division, and the moon landing?
Released Nov 1, 2018 on Patreon + A/V Club.
Full Show: patreon.com/posts/my-speech-and-on-22400201
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[preview] January 2017: The Wars To Come Jun 12, 2020

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Three men stare into a crystal ball (and into the abyss).
[BONUS] Podcastmasters’ Liberty Masterclass – Privilege Check, Listener Q&A (Part 3 of 3)
On January 20th, the Podcastmasters reconvened for a four-hour free-flowing inauguration-inspired discussion dubbed "Ow, My Inaugural Balls."
What does the future hold? What concerns to people have about their future in Trump's America?
Released January 27, 2017 on Patreon + A/V Club.
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[preview] What Is No Country For Old Men? May 29, 2020

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Picture of the Month Club - May 2020 - No Country For Old Men
Installment #7 (AUDIO, 116 MINUTES)
"The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: 'O.K., I'll be part of this world.' - Sheriff Bell
PICTURE OF THE MONTH CLUB is a monthly series featuring Dutch - a delightful, insightful and successful film maker who wants to teach you the grammar and logic of cinema. Many will remember Dutch from the CINEMAnufacturing series.
Released May 26, 2020 on Patreon, A/V Club and SubscribeStar.

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