Logan Laplante is a 13 year old boy whose mother withdrew him from mainstream school when he was 9, against the recommendations of her peers; his story is a truly inspiring outlook on modern education.
The key principles of Logan's talk is that when kids grow up we shouldn't be concerned per say with what they will do for a job, we should be focusing our children's education to focus on happiness and healthiness as if we can get these things right then they will surely follow the right career path for them and most importantly will have a happy, healthy life.
Logan has been studying the science of happiness and health and from this, the classes he takes in his 'school envirnoment' can be broken down into 8 key areas.
What he is saying is that creativity is one of the most important skills a person can have, from creativity and interest in something will innovate ways of learning. Children will find ways to learn, if they link the learning to their passions and interests. Within his home school environment he still studies the things that children in mainstream school learn, but in a way that interests him; as he states in the clip, rather than writing a short story about butterflies in English class, he is instead writing creatively about his passion; skiing.
Logan has developed this further into a theory called 'Hack Schooling'. This is not a school that teaches people to hack computers, well, not if that is not what they want to do. The theory is there is always a way to 'hack' education; find a better easier way to complete a task, find a short cut, add one way of doing things to another way creating a mash up of methods and thus creating a simpler, better way of doing things. It is about always taking advantage of opportunities to learn and moulding this situations to your personality so you gain more from the experience.
I would suggest that we remember the name Logan Laplante as I believe we will be hearing more from him in the future with his innovative Hack Schooling theory.
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