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157: Reinventing Education with Willem Larsen
01:12 - Willem’s Superpower: Meta
02:20 - Accelerated Community Learning
- Self-Sustaining Communities
12:45 - Reimagining the Education System
- Unschooling
- Open-Space
- Systems of Privilege
- Jordan Fink @buildsoil
24:20 - Stages of Human Life
- Age Segregation in School
- Storytelling of Culture
41:10 - The Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium
57:01 - Listening to What the Community Needs
The Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Reflections:
Jacob: Local communities can surely agree on and find really innovative ways they can provide for each other.
Arty: The magic can only happen with the existing system being out of the way and space being created for the people with the spaces and the people with the programs to work together around the shared interest.
Willem: Our culture has all these impediments to navigating complex systems in wise ways. We should get out of the way of people we have more power than and listen to the system and provide resources to the system.
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Special Guest: Willem Larsen.