Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion
by Bach, James MarcusEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2011-10-11
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Summary
James Bach's smart and empowering guide to self-education, which shows how leading a life in pursuit of passion can lead to fulfillment and success.
Author Biography
James Marcus Bach is the son of bestselling author Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull). After dropping out of school at the age of sixteen, he went on to become an expert in the field of computer software testing. He teaches critical thinking and software testing around the world and lives in Eastsound, Washington, with his wife, son, and two Shelties.
Table of Contents
| Dangerous Ideas: Schoolteachers don't like me very much | p. 1 |
| After the Lecture | p. 4 |
| This Book Is Not About School | p. 6 |
| What Is Education? | p. 7 |
| I Am a Buccaneer-Scholar: What's that and so what? | p. 9 |
| My Paper Credentials | p. 10 |
| High School Dropout | p. 11 |
| My True Credentials | p. 14 |
| The First Buccaneers: A free people, skilled in many arts | p. 18 |
| Who Were the Buccaneers? | p. 18 |
| What Does This Have to Do with Education? | p. 21 |
| Buccaneers and the Enlightenment | p. 23 |
| Who Can Be a Buccaneer? | p. 26 |
| Why Be a Buccaneer? | p. 27 |
| What I Do and How I Do It: Eleven elements of self-education | p. 30 |
| Scouting Obsessively | p. 35 |
| Authentic Problems | p. 36 |
| Cognitive Savvy | p. 37 |
| Knowledge Attracts Knowledge | p. 39 |
| Experimentation | p. 40 |
| Disposable Time | p. 41 |
| Stories | p. 42 |
| Contrasting Ideas | p. 43 |
| Other Minds | p. 46 |
| Words and Pictures | p. 47 |
| Systems Thinking | p. 49 |
| Making It Work: Heuristics and Great Secrets | p. 51 |
| No Schoolmasters. No Fear | p. 56 |
| Mental Mutiny:I tried to think, but nothing happened | p. 57 |
| Declare Independence | p. 59 |
| Refuse Homework | p. 61 |
| Fail Tests on Purpose | p. 61 |
| Implode | p. 62 |
| The Silence of the Clams: The value of low-pressure learning | p. 65 |
| How Did Clam Lore Improve My Life? | p. 72 |
| The Principle of Peripheral Wisdom | p. 75 |
| Peripheral Wisdom When Things Get Rough | p. 77 |
| The Principle of Alternation | p. 78 |
| The Follow the Energy Heuristic | p. 80 |
| The Long Leash Heuristic | p. 83 |
| Happy Learning, James! Discovering my passion; overcoming my fear | p. 86 |
| A Learning Frenzy | p. 88 |
| The Experiment That Changed My Life | p. 90 |
| Cyclic Learning | p. 94 |
| The Obsess and Forget Heuristic | p. 98 |
| The Plunge In and Quit Heuristic | p. 100 |
| The Procrastinate and Push Heuristic | p. 103 |
| How Are These Heuristics Different? | p. 107 |
| Emancipated Minor: I quit school and lived | p. 109 |
| Leaving Home and School | p. 110 |
| Entering the Software Business | p. 117 |
| Guaranteed Not Stupid: How do I know I'm any good? | p. 121 |
| Love and Plunder | p. 127 |
| Self-Appraisal for Buccaneers | p. 127 |
| Reputation, Tests, and Portfolio | p. 146 |
| No Prey, No Pay: Buccaneering at work | p. 149 |
| The Thrill of Being Needed | p. 152 |
| Catching the College Kids | p. 154 |
| My Learning Is My Work | p. 157 |
| Playing the Expert Game | p. 160 |
| Treasure Map: The power of a personal syllabus | p. 165 |
| The Encyclopedia Is a Poor Syllabus | p. 166 |
| Scouting and the Syllabus | p. 167 |
| Example: The Universe in a Grain of Testing | p. 169 |
| Example: A Syllabus of Questions | p. 173 |
| Dr. Bach: Buccaneering in the long run | p. 176 |
| Hoisting the Black Flag | p. 178 |
| A Society of Buccaneers | p. 181 |
| Hunting in Packs | p. 187 |
| Epilogue: At the helm | p. 191 |
| Stars to Steer By: Famous buccaneers help me raise my son | p. 195 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 207 |
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