【正文】 ed for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.
　　in XX, sir ken robinson gave the most popular ted talk of all time. schools kill creativity. his message is that creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
　　a lot of parents watched those videos, some of those parents like mine counted it as one of the reasons they felt confident to pull their kids from traditional school to try something different. i realized iamp。m part of this small, but growing revolution of kids who are going about their education differently, and you know what? it freaks a lot of people out.
　　even though i was only nine, when my parents pulled me out of the school system, i can still remember my mom being in tears when some of her friends told her she was crazy and it was a stupid idea.
　　looking back, iamp。m thankful she didnamp。t cave to peer pressure, and i think she is too. so, out of the 200 million people that have watched sir ken robinsonamp。s talk, why arenamp。t there more kids like me out there?
　　shane mcconkey is my hero. i loved him because he was the worldamp。s best skier. but then, one day i realized what i really loved about shane, he was a hacker. not a puter hacker, he hacked skiing. his creativity and inventions made skiing what it is today, and why i love to ski. a lot of people think of hackers as geeky puter nerds who live in their parentamp。s basement and spread puter viruses, but i donamp。t see it that way.
　　hackers are innovators, hackers are people who challenge and change the systems to make them work differently, to make them work better, itamp。s just how they think, itamp。s a mindset.
　　iamp。m growing up in a world that needs more people with the hacker mindset, and not just for technology, everything is up for being hacked, even skiing, even education. so whether itamp。s steve jobs, mark zuckerberg or shane mcconkey having the hacker mindset can change the world.
　　healthy, happy, creativity in the hacker mindset are all a large part of my education. i call it hackschooling, i donamp。t use any one particular curriculum, and iamp。m not dedicated to any one particular approach, i hack my education.
　　i take advantage of opportunities in my munity, and through a network of my friends and family. i take advantage of opportunities to experience what iamp。m learning, and iamp。m not afraid to look for shortcuts or hacks to get a better faster result. itamp。s like a remix or a mashup of learning. itamp。s flexible, opportunistic, and it never loses sight of making happy, healthy and creativity a priority.
　　and here is the cool part, because itamp。s a mindset, not a system. hackschooling can be used anyone, even traditional schools. soo what does my school look like? well, it looks like starbucks a lot of the time, but like most kids i study lot of math, science, history and writing. i didnamp。t used to like to write because my teachers made me write about