EP 078: Brandon Pearce -Travelling the Globe World Schooling your Children




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Summary: Travelling the Globe World Schooling your Children<br> Brandon Pearce is the creator of Family Adventure Academy, an annual live event for families interested in long-term travel, location independence, alternative education, entrepreneurship, community, deepening family relationships, and more.  With his wife and 3 children, they have been travelling the world for the past 10 years, visiting over 40 countries and world schooling their children along the way.<br> <br>  <br> <br> “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.” ~ Mark Twain<br> <br>  <br> <br> What's the difference between world schooling, homeschooling, and unschooling.<br> <br>  <br> World Schooling<br> World Schooling is an opportunity to let your children grow at their own pace. To develop the confidence to turn strangers into friends knowing that you are there close-by while they need you.<br> <br> With world schooling, children learn from real-life experiences. They can learn naturally about the places they go, the people they meet and the experiences they have. Imagine learning about the pyramids by travelling down the Nile River in Egypt; volcanos at the top of Mount Vesuvius; the Amazon rain forest on a riverboat cruise down the Amazon River, about Buddhism in Thailand.<br> <br>  <br> <br> <a href="https://expatmoneyshow.com/family-adventure-academy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><br> <br>  <br> Homeschooling<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling">Homeschooling</a>, also known as home education is the <a title="Education" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education</a> of children at home or a variety of other places. Home education is usually conducted by a parent or tutor or online teacher. Many families use less formal ways of educating. "Homeschooling" is the term commonly used in North America, whereas "home education" is commonly used in the United Kingdom, Europe, and in many Commonwealth countries.<br> <br>  <br> Unschooling<br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling">Unschooling</a> is an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning. Students learn through their natural life experiences including play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction.<br> <br> Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, believing that the more personal learning is the more meaningful, well-understood and therefore useful it is to the child. While courses may occasionally be taken, unschooling questions the usefulness of standard <a class="mw-redirect" title="Curricula" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curricula">curricula</a>, conventional grading methods, and other features of traditional schooling in the education of each unique child.<br> <br>  <br> <br>  <br> <br> World schooling and homeschooling is always a hot topic here on the Expat Money Show.  We've had several guests that decided that living the life of an Expat Entrepreneur was the way to go. <a href="https://expatmoneyshow.com/sam-mcroberts-how-to-internationalize-your-life-so-you-can-protect-your-wealth-and-protect-your-family/">Sam McRoberts</a> from the USA is one of them.  Running his SEO Company, Vudu Marketing from the road, along with his wife and son, they are travelling the world while world schooling.  This episode was fantastic, and even if you've listened to it once, it's worth listening to again.<br> <br>  <br> <br> If you're still not satisfied that Unschooling is what's best for your children, here's an article that Mikkel Thorup wrote last year.