This podcast is with founder, Rob Huge, of Greenfields Academy in Chicago, which is an Acton Academy school that focuses on creating students who are world-changers. The "Griffins" at Greenfields have the freedom and flexible to create their own educational path towards being more intentional in learning and life.

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Podcast timestamps:

Rob Huge’s personal story

Travel and how that impacts our learning

12:57 - What is the purpose of school?

13:21 - School has become childcare

13:58 - Our job as parents, isn’t to make good students but to help them become good people

14:28 - Once you come out of school, the 2 most important skills

14:51 - Young people living lives of quiet desperation

15:19 - If you want to fix school really quickly

15:30 - Difference between pedagogy and andagogy 

16:30 - Covid19 exposes schools as child care 

17:37 - Philosophy of Greenville Academy

20:25 - How “Griffins” spend their time

21:41 - Dr Robert Shanks works

24:15 - Higher education

25:48 - Compulsion in education

27:33 - Comparing school and a job

28:00 - Bullying in school

29:12 - Social Emotional Learning

30:26 - One right answer

30:45 - Diversity in private school

32:35 - Cost of Greenville’s academy vs. Traditional government schools

33:03 - Rob Huge’s paradigm change - multi-age learning

36:03 - Adult relationships with younger children, parenting with this style of education

44:30 - The meaning of the term “Griffen”

47:00 - Teaching without knowing all the answers

50:55 - Leading people to their life’s mission, back off of scheduling

58:00 - Preparing children for the future

1:01 - Habits for better learning

1:02:28 - Long -term for goals