Educação sem escola

How to Hack Your Education

By DALE J. STEPHENS

I am an elementary school dropout. At the end of fifth grade I told my parents I was bored in school. They could have told me to stick it out, that doing so would “build character.” Instead, although my mom was a public school teacher and my dad an engineer – both products of the public school system – they allowed to leave school and try unschooling, the self-directed form of homeschooling.

While my peers sat in class through middle school and high school, I found mentors, took college classes, started businesses, lived in France, worked on political campaigns and helped build a library. I created my education by taking these traditional “extracurricular activities” and turning them into a cohesive academic program...

I started UnCollege.org early in my second semester to challenge the notion that college is the only path to success. It spread like wildfire. In late February, I told New York magazine that I would leave school whether or not I got the Thiel fellowship. Two months later, I did...

The first step to hacking your education is creating a life syllabus. To start, you need to find the answers to three questions:

Who am I?
What do I love?
Where am I going?

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