Picture yourself as a third grader. It’s May and you have two weeks of school left. It’s warm outside and all you can think about is a fun-filled summer full of sprinklers, fireworks, and ice cream.
Yet here you sit at this uncomfortable desk, listening to the teacher droning on and on about some lesson in math or history or science. You’d rather be anywhere but here.
We never quite escape this impulse of wanting to be done with our education. We move on to middle school, high school, most likely college, and perhaps grad school. With every level, there is a sense in which we just want to be done so we can move on with life.
That is the kind of attitude most people expect from formal education, where we follow a prescribed path someone has laid out for us. There are lots of benefits to formal education, but nothing compares to the curriculum you create for yourself.
As Ernest Hemingway said, “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” On today's podcast, Kent challenges us to be a constant learner.
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