Sure glowing praises for the documentary. I do believe Jeremy Stuart did a good job and the worldwide awakening of unschooling and self-directed learning phenomenon is a phenomenal initiative.
Reason I am giving it 8/10 is because as a 40 year old college dropout autodidact I was more interested in their learning style and thought processes. Like how they learn? What happens if they are overwhelmed when tackling something new? What are their learning strategies?
At first the documentator make it seem like Emily et al. Just pick up their craft by sheer force of curiosity and drive effortlessly. Like not everyone can just open up a garage.
But the pace does pick up when it comes to Northern Star and World School (forgive me if I forget the actual term). These are sort of Montessoiri approaches for adults. All hands-on learning a la Finnish model. Still it only gives glimpse as how they just pick up their craft effotlessly such as building hut, paving, grape press etc....
It is great for high schoolers and similar demographics. And it is filled with nuggets of wisdom and information such as what is really meant by education, how the whole world is a great learning environment, and even radical ideas as schools must be done away with. Dr. Peter Gray was delight to listen to!
The greatest takeaway is this: almost all the case studies had positive, supportive, loving encouraging environment and parental support.
This really goes on to show when the community is supportive we can really create geniuses a la Renaissance Men like Leonardo da Vinci.
It shows that we humans are souls on earth who perform best when given no reign or leash on creativity and wonder and full autonomy is given.
These are high level spiritual thoughts and such unconditional love and support is not seen much really elsewhere for a bouncing baby to flourish in this world in a loving nurturing away that was been usurped by the rot of captilastic competition, greed and social media hyperdrive of treadmill.
All in all good, positive, refreshing upbeat documetary. These are the things I wanna watch and I paid for it. Another great short docu was on YouTube about playground for geniuses in Santa Fe institute.
Reason I am giving it 8/10 is because as a 40 year old college dropout autodidact I was more interested in their learning style and thought processes. Like how they learn? What happens if they are overwhelmed when tackling something new? What are their learning strategies?
At first the documentator make it seem like Emily et al. Just pick up their craft by sheer force of curiosity and drive effortlessly. Like not everyone can just open up a garage.
But the pace does pick up when it comes to Northern Star and World School (forgive me if I forget the actual term). These are sort of Montessoiri approaches for adults. All hands-on learning a la Finnish model. Still it only gives glimpse as how they just pick up their craft effotlessly such as building hut, paving, grape press etc....
It is great for high schoolers and similar demographics. And it is filled with nuggets of wisdom and information such as what is really meant by education, how the whole world is a great learning environment, and even radical ideas as schools must be done away with. Dr. Peter Gray was delight to listen to!
The greatest takeaway is this: almost all the case studies had positive, supportive, loving encouraging environment and parental support.
This really goes on to show when the community is supportive we can really create geniuses a la Renaissance Men like Leonardo da Vinci.
It shows that we humans are souls on earth who perform best when given no reign or leash on creativity and wonder and full autonomy is given.
These are high level spiritual thoughts and such unconditional love and support is not seen much really elsewhere for a bouncing baby to flourish in this world in a loving nurturing away that was been usurped by the rot of captilastic competition, greed and social media hyperdrive of treadmill.
All in all good, positive, refreshing upbeat documetary. These are the things I wanna watch and I paid for it. Another great short docu was on YouTube about playground for geniuses in Santa Fe institute.
