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In this episode Lars talks with Blake Boles, founder and director of Unschool Adventures, and an author, lecturer and podcaster focusing on self-directed learning and alternatives to school. He has written three books, The Art of Self-Directed Learning (2014), Better than College (2012) and College without High School (2009), and produces the podcast Off-Trail Learning.

We met up in Eugene, Oregon for a talk about common and uncommon conceptions about school and learning, what makes kids thrive, homeschooling and unschooling and other alternatives to school, and the importance of nature and what you can learn by going to summer camps as a kid, to mention a few things we get into.

Blake has an extensive experience in talking with teenagers and young adults who have gone through alternative routes to higher learning and adult working life, and lectures on this topic regularly across the US (and sometimes elsewhere in the world).

Though the ideas and ideal that we discuss here might not be of the kind most commonly held in the US or in Norway, we hope that it might contribute to broadening the perspective on learning and schooling.

Blake's webpage is https://www.blakeboles.com/

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