{"id":2782,"date":"2025-11-23T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:46:15","slug":"episode-87-born-to-raise-hell-self-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/pedagogy\/episode-87-born-to-raise-hell-self-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 87: Born To Raise Hell: Self-education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matt&#8217;s Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for joining us on this, our 87th venture into this wildness which is the EnT! We&#8217;re glad you&#8217;re here for this discussion on self-education and other associated and sundry topics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ed non-Tech (EnT) Podcast 87: Born To Raise Hell: Self-education\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NMxsN8yb4g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reach for the YouTube dial while there&#8217;s still a dial left to imagine! #ednontech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EnT-87-audio.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may suspend your disbelief and imagine us on the other side of this audio, if you&#8217;re so inclined! #ednontech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tumblr_9365c558dfb977a1e5ca8d85b7446cf3_d323bc91_500.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2791\" style=\"width:824px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251121_0001.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">IMG_20251121_0001<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/T9RJXYP.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2792\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-850x1133.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doug&#8217;s Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Self-education<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-733x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-733x1024.png 733w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-1100x1536.png 1100w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-300x419.png 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-850x1187.png 850w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I conclude, from your presence here, that you regard self-education as not only a duty but a privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitehurst, Edward C. (1855). <em>Self-Education: a Lecture<\/em>. London, B. D. Cousins, Helmet Court, Strand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-1024x624.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-1024x624.png 1024w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4-850x518.png 850w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-4.png 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One can say, generally, that up to the fairly recent wide-spread and readily available schooling for everybody, self-education was the prime way for man to cope with the world around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the introduction of free compulsory education for children, following the industrial revolution, many educators have forgotten the need of the adult to continue on learning, although the working man struggling for his place in the industrial society and the North American self-made man provide us with ample examples of the self-educated adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kulich, J. (1970). <em>An Historical Overview of the Adult Self-Learner<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-845x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-845x1024.png 845w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-768x931.png 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-1268x1536.png 1268w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-300x363.png 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5-850x1030.png 850w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-5.png 1304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-education must above all consist in this, that where one perceives one\u2019s shortcomings, one strengthens one\u2019s own resources and that one does not relinquish this responsibility to the school, or rely on school grades, or on school reports or on whatever is given a premium by parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gadamer, H. G. (2001). Education is self-education.<em> Journal of philosophy of education, 35<\/em>(4), 529-538.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"942\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6.png 942w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6-768x739.png 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-6-850x818.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what is necessary for self-education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To receive considerable results from the processes of self-education, self-development and self-improvement, strong wish and willpower are necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kopteva, G. (2020). About self-education. <em>The Scientific Heritage, (53-4)<\/em>, 52-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-243x300.jpeg 243w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-768x948.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-300x371.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-education always takes place outside the educational institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, self-education takes place only when there is no personal obligation to learn and when education is not imposed by any authority, in any formal environment, according to any official curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mihai, O. I. (2021). Self-education and lifelong learning. <em>IJASOS-International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 7<\/em>(19), 142-145.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-1024x179.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-1024x179.png 1024w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-300x53.png 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-768x134.png 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-1536x269.png 1536w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-850x149.png 850w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Self-learning in history<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Socrates spoke about the wise as those who have mastered self-control, and declared himself as a selflearner who is not ashamed to learn from everyone around him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plato &#8211; the ultimate goal of education is the ability of the adult for self-education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aristotle &#8211; the principle of self-realization, a potentiality for wisdom which can be developed both through self-education and through the help of a teacher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seneca &#8211; all education through others must ultimately aim at inculcating the ability for self-education, and that this ability needs frequent re-charging and guidance from outside the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi &#8211; &#8220;I have to raise myself, through my own effort, to the degree of perfection made possible by my own nature&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Edward Gibbon &#8211; &#8220;Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmund Coote &#8211; Englische Scholemaister (1596) &#8211; &#8220;it was designed not only for the teacher, but also for &#8216;the unskillful, which desire to make use of it, for their owne private benefit&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/documerica-veuFAxUKzWc-unsplash-850x567.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Word of the Podcast<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Self-education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Question of the Podcast<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">How could self education realistically replace institutionalized schooling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Phrase of the Podcast<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">I did not go anywhere with it because I was not motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/analogue-trope.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tumblr_5a57c077650f9ca5596ce69b12a6aa05_21ecda9a_500.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2788\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Every time we do this, we learn something new. 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We&#8217;re glad you&#8217;re here for this discussion on self-education and other associated and sundry topics! 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