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Praise for College Without High School

Words fail me. This is the most inspiring, convincing, and practical case for self-directed learning that Ive seen in many years. Mr. Boles draws on time management principles from the business world and on his own adventure-packed youth to map out a brilliantly simple way that people can live life to the fullest while also preparing masterfully for admission to college. If you believe, as I do, that our time on earth is a grand gift not to be squandered, then buy this book for all the teenagers you love, and watch as all manner of quests, discoveries, inventions, and miracles emerge.

Grace Llewellyn, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook:
how to quit school and get a real life and education
and Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Dont
Go to School Tell Their Own Stories

This splendid book is intended as a step-by-step guide, but can be read with profit by anyone interested in moral philosophy. Exceptionally clear, insightful, and lively, it will take its place as the definitive work on the subject.

John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down,
The Underground History of American Education,
and Weapons of Mass Instruction

Boles offers an antidote to the over-scheduled, grade-driven, and sadly uncreative existence of most high-schoolers today. Its time for teens to take control of their own education. Yes, they must learn the basics. Absolutely. But as Boles explains, self-motivated teens can cover those topics efficiently and free up more of their time for further learning. This book is a crucial guide for students and parents interested in replacing the old carrot and stick thats at the heart of todays education system with intrinsic motivationselfdirectedness and autonomy that leads to real learning and growth.

Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
and The Adventures Of Johnny Bunko

Blake Boles has found the solution for those students who find regular high school oppressive. Outstanding advice! His book is absolutely right on about the many options for success for students who have a little different approach to life and study.

Donald Asher, author of Cool Colleges For the Hyper-Intelligent,
Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different

College Without High School is an excellent update to the groundwork provided by John Holt, the Colfaxes, Grace Llewellyn, and other unschoolers. I found it engaging and filled with concrete understanding and useful suggestions for Self Directed Learners of all ages, in or out of school.

Cafi Cohen, author of And What About College?: How homeschooling
leads to admissions to the best colleges and universities

College Without High School is a fantastic resource for homeschoolers who want to stand out from the rest of the college admissions pack. However, especially for unschoolers and other eclectic learners, it is also an inspirational description for how adventurous self-directed learning can lead to college admission. This is an entertaining work-book, how-to manual, and educational philosophy text that will help teenagers and their families figure out how to get into college without a conventional high school degree.

Patrick Farenga, co-author of Teach Your Own:
The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Blake Boles shares what homeschoolers have known for decades: teens are thriving everywhere without attending school! Blake will inspire you to seize the day and live well now, with every bit of confidence that the doors to college will be wide open to you. I am thrilled to have another messenger trumpet the truth that school is optional. I recommend all parents and educators to acquaint themselves with this information.

Kenneth Danford, co-founder and executive director
of North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens

For Ross, Liza, Cooper, Olivia and Ben

Premises and Promises

Is a Life of Teenage Adventure for You?

Most high schoolers never consider the possibility of life outside the classroom. But that life exists, and its lived every day by a growing number of non-traditional students: unschoolers.

For an unschooler, each day is a chance for a new adventure. You might find one volunteering on an organic farm in France, bike-riding across state lines with friends, taking pulses as an emergency room intern, making phone calls to favorite authors, crashing a college physics lecture, blogging about graphic design or running a tutoring business. These teens pursue their dreams on a daily basisand they still get into college.

Emerie Snyder entered New York Universitys revered Tisch School of Arts without a day of high school on her transcript. Andy Pearson never went to any school but began part-time college courses at the University of Michigan at age 16 (and soon became a full-time student). Charlotte Wagoner studies International Business at Rockhurst, and Shannon Lee Clair writes plays at Princetoneach without four years of high school to their names. Unschooled teens have gained admission to virtually every competitive college in the US. These unschoolers arent Einstein-like geniuses. Theyre normal teens who, unsatisfied with schools plan for their future, chose to get an education on their own terms. You can make this choice, too.

Ask yourself if the following premises make sense. If they do, then you might be a closet unschooler, and a life of teenage adventure awaits you.

School and Education areNotthe Same Thing

School is a place where people go; education is gaining the confidence to follow your dreams. You can succeed in life without school, but youll fail terribly without an education.

You Can Learn More by Going to School Less

Learning is driven by interest and relevancy, not threats and bribery. If biology fascinates you, youll learn it quickly. If computer science is relevant to your dreams, then youll focus on it. The motivational machinery used by schoolsconstant testing, grading and comparison discourages learning in curious minds.

Getting Into a Top College Does Not Require Full-Time High School

Getting into a top college does require proving that you can handle rigorous academics, structured classroom learning and the other skills that college requires. Unschoolers find alternative paths to proving these points: they enroll in community college classes, use SAT and AP tests to demonstrate proficiency or highlight the intellectual challenges of their self-directed projects (among dozens of other options).

Leaving School Does Not Lock You Into a Fast Food Career

Life is not a pyramid with doctors, lawyers and professors on the top, McDonalds cashiers at the bottom and school the only ladder between. The US is home to countless intelligent and financially successful adults who left the traditional school path. Choosing to leave school is an entrepreneurial move, not a cop-out.

Life Doesnt Have to Wait Until Age 18

Youre not legally an adult until age 18, but that doesnt mean you have to let school control your life until then. Thirteen-year-old Native Americans patrolled their villages on horseback, and 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham sailed around the world on his boat,

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