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| Dangerous Ideas: Schoolteachers don't like me very much | |
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| After the Lecture | |
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| This Book Is Not About School | |
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| What Is Education? | |
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| I Am a Buccaneer-Scholar: What's that and so what? | |
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| My Paper Credentials | |
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| High School Dropout | |
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| My True Credentials | |
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| The First Buccaneers: A free people, skilled in many arts | |
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| Who Were the Buccaneers? | |
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| What Does This Have to Do with Education? | |
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| Buccaneers and the Enlightenment | |
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| Who Can Be a Buccaneer? | |
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| Why Be a Buccaneer? | |
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| What I Do and How I Do It: Eleven elements of self-education | |
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| Scouting Obsessively | |
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| Authentic Problems | |
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| Cognitive Savvy | |
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| Knowledge Attracts Knowledge | |
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| Experimentation | |
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| Disposable Time | |
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| Stories | |
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| Contrasting Ideas | |
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| Other Minds | |
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| Words and Pictures | |
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| Systems Thinking | |
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| Making It Work: Heuristics and Great Secrets | |
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| No Schoolmasters. No Fear | |
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| Mental Mutiny:I tried to think, but nothing happened | |
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| Declare Independence | |
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| Refuse Homework | |
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| Fail Tests on Purpose | |
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| Implode | |
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| The Silence of the Clams: The value of low-pressure learning | |
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| How Did Clam Lore Improve My Life? | |
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| The Principle of Peripheral Wisdom | |
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| Peripheral Wisdom When Things Get Rough | |
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| The Principle of Alternation | |
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| The Follow the Energy Heuristic | |
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| The Long Leash Heuristic | |
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| Happy Learning, James! Discovering my passion; overcoming my fear | |
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| A Learning Frenzy | |
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| The Experiment That Changed My Life | |
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| Cyclic Learning | |
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| The Obsess and Forget Heuristic | |
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| The Plunge In and Quit Heuristic | |
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| The Procrastinate and Push Heuristic | |
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| How Are These Heuristics Different? | |
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| Emancipated Minor: I quit school and lived | |
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| Leaving Home and School | |
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| Entering the Software Business | |
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| Guaranteed Not Stupid: How do I know I'm any good? | |
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| Love and Plunder | |
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| Self-Appraisal for Buccaneers | |
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| Reputation, Tests, and Portfolio | |
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| No Prey, No Pay: Buccaneering at work | |
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| The Thrill of Being Needed | |
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| Catching the College Kids | |
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| My Learning Is My Work | |
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| Playing the Expert Game | |
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| Treasure Map: The power of a personal syllabus | |
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| The Encyclopedia Is a Poor Syllabus | |
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| Scouting and the Syllabus | |
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| Example: The Universe in a Grain of Testing | |
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| Example: A Syllabus of Questions | |
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| Dr. Bach: Buccaneering in the long run | |
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| Hoisting the Black Flag | |
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| A Society of Buccaneers | |
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| Hunting in Packs | |
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| Epilogue: At the helm | |
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| Stars to Steer By: Famous buccaneers help me raise my son | |
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| Acknowledgments | |