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Hacking School: One Teenager's Path to Happiness

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

For Teenager Logan LaPlante, the answer is simple: "I want to continue to be happy."

He asks the pointed question: "What if we based education on the practice of being happy and healthy? Are schools making this a priority? Much of education is more geared towards making a living than towards making a life."

So he's created his own model of a school based on things like community, time in nature, general happiness. He calls his alternative school model "hackschool" because it's all about being willing to change a system. "Everything is up for being hacked," said LaPlante. Since he started his new system, he's hacked through every subject -- from physics to math to history -- while building things along the way. Check out his inspirational talk.

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