Logan Laplante is not your typical 13-year-old boy, but one whose experiences and intelligence exceeds those of the average child. He recited his “Hackschooling Makes Me Happy” speech at TedX at the University of Nevada back in 2013. Although his primary audience is those who attended TedX, the many others who saw his speech online were drawn in as well. The purpose of this speech is to convince adults, teachers, mentors, educators, and many more that kids should be taught to be happy, healthy, and have a hacker mindset. The effectiveness of LaPlante’s speech to convince his audience to try hackschooling rather than traditional schooling is credited mainly to his primary rhetorical strategies: ethos, pathos, and logos. Logan has the ability
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Roger Walsh about the concept of schools and how they do not provide an overall curriculum that supports happiness. He speaks of his study on the science of being healthy and happy and that it comes down to eight simple lifestyle changes that Dr. Roger Walsh calls Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs. When LaPlante had the chance to speak with Dr. Walsh, he asked him a few questions one of which was, “do you think that our schools today are making theses eight TLCs a priority?” His response was no surprise, it was essentially “no”. “Much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.” This is a statement Dr. Walsh said to LaPlante that he connected the most with because it supports his theory that kids are not taught to be happy. Being one of the few who are a part of hackschooling makes him feel very fortunate because he is able to learn out of the box and be his own kind of happy. He states, “hackers are people who challenge and change the systems to make them work differently, to make them work better..” Hackschooling isn’t necessarily homeschooling. Students learn the basics: math, science, history and writing but also are able to learn what excites them individually. They are able to hack their own education and do and be who they want to be. He expresses this strategy when he states that he is “growing up in a world that needs more people with a hacker mindset,” including fields beyond
Roger Walsh about the concept of schools and how they do not provide an overall curriculum that supports happiness. He speaks of his study on the science of being healthy and happy and that it comes down to eight simple lifestyle changes that Dr. Roger Walsh calls Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs. When LaPlante had the chance to speak with Dr. Walsh, he asked him a few questions one of which was, “do you think that our schools today are making theses eight TLCs a priority?” His response was no surprise, it was essentially “no”. “Much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.” This is a statement Dr. Walsh said to LaPlante that he connected the most with because it supports his theory that kids are not taught to be happy. Being one of the few who are a part of hackschooling makes him feel very fortunate because he is able to learn out of the box and be his own kind of happy. He states, “hackers are people who challenge and change the systems to make them work differently, to make them work better..” Hackschooling isn’t necessarily homeschooling. Students learn the basics: math, science, history and writing but also are able to learn what excites them individually. They are able to hack their own education and do and be who they want to be. He expresses this strategy when he states that he is “growing up in a world that needs more people with a hacker mindset,” including fields beyond