Dan Sanchez was kind enough to invite me to coauthor a little piece for FEE.org about mindsets inculcated by the schooling process and how a key step toward personal freedom and growth is recognizing and obliterating them. This is what my friend Zak Slayback would call “deschooling yourself”.
Check out the article here. The seven mindsets we outline are:
- The conveyor belt mindset
- The permission mindset
- The student mindset
- The teacher mindset
- The worker mindset
- The recess mindset
- The major mindset
From the article,
“The first step toward self-emancipation is certainly not supporting or opposing a presidential candidate. Neither need it be civil disobedience, evasion of government directives, or resistance to the authorities. There is much lower hanging fruit to be had than that.”
And,
“Only a people who first free themselves spiritually and individually can hope to free themselves physically and as a society. It is impossible to liberate people, as Voltaire said, “from the chains they revere.” And the first order of business in improving society is, as Albert Jay Nock said, “to present society with one improved unit.””