Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning

By: Connor Boyack

Narrated by: Connor Boyack

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you need parenting advice on how to inspire your child to love learning? Whether you homeschool, or send your kids to public or private school, this is essential listening for your situation.

Why? Because schooling has become a disaster. Your child's interests and uniqueness are disregarded, and structured curriculum and standards like Common Core place them on a conveyor belt that treats all children the same. This system crushes a child's curiosity. Your child deserves better!

There is a better way: one that ensures your child sees learning as a joy and provides you, the parent, with a much less stressful way to educate and empower your son or daughter. In this book, Connor Boyack shares the exciting philosophy and empowering day-to-day steps involved in passion-driven education.

A child's curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it's protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity, and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child's life. Let's ignite our children's natural love of learning!

©2016 Connor Boyack (P)2016 Connor Boyack

Good

This is very close to how I feel about my own children's education. I'm glad other feel the same way. I hope to implement the methods spoken of in this book.

Good principles in action

Any additional comments?

I love the principles of love, freedom, learning, empowerment, trust and faith expressed in Passion-Driven Education. Boyack also provides case-studies which prove the efficacy of those principles. It's inspired me to more seriously pursue my own passion-driven education and provide the right environment and guidance for my children to learn and grow. My wife is excited to read it now that I'm done.

Reading this little gem reminded me of the sentiments expressed by Albert Einstein:

"Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom."

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

"Play is the highest form of research."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

quick and easy, but certainly great

I really enjoyed this quick, easy read. I highly recommend it to others. our education system is ripe for disruption, and some of the methodologies contained in this book will help is move forward.

very inspiring book about education!

and while I don't 100% agree with unschooling, I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this book and will be using many of it's suggestions in my own homeschooling!

Wonderfully Informative!

Listening to this helped me realize that I've been following a passion driven education with my grandson and didn't realize it. Now, I don't feel guilty as I allow him to explore his world on his own terms!

Great book for parents and educators

Loved this book. I felt inspired and validated in a lot of my feelings, thoughts, and fears sending my daughter to public school.

Good listen

I was hoping for more content. I guess after I read dumbing us down I kinda got all I needed to hear about our common core and allowing our children to follow their passions from there.

Puts your frustrating thoughts about compulsory school in logical order and gives you solutions to start today!

I recall leaving high school thinking, “now REAL learning can begin.” I felt that I was perhaps the only one who wasn’t brainwashed and hadn’t drunk the government school Kool-Aid. College and a military career continued to be just an extended process of being told what to do; today I still ask myself, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” Connor Boyack touches on these thoughts on how we are kept so busy and how our passions are squelched and squashed.

Now as a homeschooling mom, I find myself imposing (at times) the same system I loathed on my children. I was probably the most brainwashed being that I was a high achiever. Not to toot my own horn, but just to say that I conformed (seeking too much the authorities approval) and have not much to show for it when I look at acronyms behind my name, and I have no passion for those titles. I love my title of ”Mom” and want to do my best for the kids. I want something different for my kids. This book is inspirational.

Thought-provoking and inspiring.

As the father of two young children who is very interested in providing a better life experience for them, this book serves as both an inspiration and a resource. It is helping me ask the questions about what really matters is their character, personality, and academic development. It also introduces many options and alternatives to traditional school.

Insightful!

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book to be be honest. but it was just what I needed at this point in our homeschool journey! I have 5 kids. All with different passions, learning styles, you name it! This book really helped put learning and teaching in to perspective for me. As a product of the public school system I never found a passion for learning until I was an adult and had the freedom to pick and choose. This book helped me realize how easy and important it is to encourage that passion at a young age rather than wait until they are full grown! It really makes you realize how our public school system is short changing our children, and ultimately stifling their great potential. I consider this a MUST READ for any parent!