Driven 2 Educate

Guest: Blake Boles Educator, Author, Entrepreneur, and Trail Runner Blake was traditionally educated in the public school system of Bakersfield, CA. Other than being occasionally bored he felt he had a decent experience as a student within the traditional school system. He was a good student with good grades. He is a advocate and proponent of Self-Directed Learning and has written a book on the subject and founded a company that enables young adults and teenagers the opportunity to explore their own paths through travel both nationally and internationally. He did not begin to explore the idea of education or being an educator until his 3rd year in college  at Berkeley. His ideas of Astrophysics weren't as he pictured. He had envisioned astrophysics to be an adventure like those experienced in the movie "contact." When he fully understood the reality of being at computers for hours on end he sought alternatives. After being given a copy of John Taylor Gatto's Book "A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving Th