Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
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Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
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Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#2This is super interesting! I wonder what other homeschooled people think of their experiences!
Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#3This is super interesting! I wonder what other homeschooled people think of their experiences!
I enjoyed reading this recent post from Nathan Barry, which tells some of his story: https://nathanbarry.com/homeschool/
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#4Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#5This is super interesting! I wonder what other homeschooled people think of their experiences!
Some of them dislike it intensely and don’t want to talk about it.
An extremely intelligent friend of mine is one of those people, and he has hang ups about it.
Note that there are good home schooling experiences as well, but there may be some selection bias regarding the stories we typically hear.
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#6Such a great interview. It's fascinating to see how different education styles can have such a big impact.
While homeschooling isn't the right fit for everyone, I was homeschooled and it had a huge impact on me. My habits now for constant learning, working to complete tasks quickly, building projects with my hands (remodeling, woodworking, etc), and my desire to start companies all came from the time and energy that my parents put into crafting a unique education for me.
I'm so excited to see more and more parents considering homeschooling their kids.
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#7Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#8Is homeschooling actually better once you control for the types of people who are capable of doing it? I would imagine a good chunk of people who homeschool their children are incredibly active in their children's education, by definition. These children I would argue, would be fine with or without homeschooling.
Homeschooling also just seems unsustainable. Modern society generally requires two parents to be working. Can an average family afford to homeschool their children? At least in the USA, most indications give a pretty firm "no."
That being said, I really enjoyed this article. People definitely should have more control over their education and how it relates to their own children's needs.
Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#9> But with longevity and other deeply existential problems, the horror of what’s happening has been tragically normalized.
I will never understand this attitude. Why don't we see how valuable aging and death are? How can we possibly reframe this as a "horror". The horror is this idea that personal identity can go on indefinitely. Aging is a process of coming to terms with death. None of this is being "tragically normalized". What's being normalized is the idea that we can have everything we want all the time forever without any spiritual or material costs.
Re: Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
#10Is homeschooling actually better once you control for the types of people who are capable of doing it? I would imagine a good chunk of people who homeschool their children are incredibly active in their children's education, by definition. These children I would argue, would be fine with or without homeschooling. Homeschooling also just seems unsustainable. Modern society generally requires two parents to be working.…
In some cases it will not be better. In some cases it will be better. It is important that homeschooling remains an option for those cases.