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		<title>New Chapter in the Paperback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paperback version of the Buccaneer- Scholar is now available. It has a new chapter.
Although I wrote the book for young working people who work with their minds, it turns out the dominant market for it is parents of homeschooled and unschooled kids. So, I&#8217;ve added a chapter specifically for them. It&#8217;s deals with how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indispensable Skills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day a few years ago I reflected on my responsibility as a father to educate my son. I decided that education is a personal work of art, and therefore it&#8217;s my son&#8217;s decision how to educate himself. My role is to facilitate and support but not to &#8220;educate&#8221; in any active sense, unless he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Puzzle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trey Klein sent me another puzzle&#8230;
&#8220;Find the missing 13th number in this sequence:
77, 341, 923, 1547, 608, 2116, 377, 2263, 518, 1394, 3182, 1645,  _____ , 944, 4636, …&#8221;
Anyone who solves this, I&#8217;d like you to post the sequence of tactics and ideas by which you solved it, in the comments. (Yes, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Boshoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young man from South Africa, William Boshoff, recently wrote me with a familiar story of trouble in school&#8230;
School! Nobody could ever justify why knowing the structure of fauna RNA is vital to my future. Solving problems which had no relevance to my life was one thing, but something else really bothered me: If I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buccaneerscholar.com/blog/archives/127</link>
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		<title>Education Without Schooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hand me a Band-Aid. Make a Xerox of that. Get some more Kleenex. FedEx that package. These are all examples of a synecdoche. That&#8217;s when one kind or form or part of a thing is made to stand in for an entire category. This is not necessarily a bad thing, except when language becomes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buccaneer Rob Bach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother, Rob, taught me to fly in 1991. I thought it would be weird, spending day and night with him as a student. I assumed there&#8217;d be lots of sibling tension. In fact, it was glorious. We had a great time. I went from neophyte to solo cross-country flight in three-weeks.
Being a pilot is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Among Unschoolers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About five hundred folks, from young children to adults, gathered at the Marriott in Westlake, Texas, last week, for the Rethinking Education conference. The event took place all over the hotel: hallways, lobby, lounge, even the space in front of the elevators on several floors. The whole place had been converted to a free kid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.buccaneerscholar.com/blog/archives/112</link>
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		<title>Excerpt of Buccaneer-Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast has published an excerpt of my book.
However, they embellished my record, and I need to set it straight.
First, they called me a genius. If I were a genius it would undermine my message. You do not need to be a genius to do what I did. I&#8217;m an intelligent guy, sure, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working With Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like working with teens who are eager to learn. For four months last year I had the pleasure of working with two brothers, Brandon and Chris Ojaste. Brandon is 18, Chris 16. These young men&#8211; both unschooled&#8211; worked with me to learn about computer technical support. I was showing them the ropes, and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Talk to Your 43 year-old Son When He&#8217;s Only 13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my dog was killed I saw the school bus coming back up the long dirt road. I saw it coming as I stood over the broken body of my sheltie Astra, who had been running around alive just five minutes earlier. I guess the bus driver never knew he killed her, because he waved [...]]]></description>
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