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40. Nikhil Goyal (Education Activist) – Mind in a Box
40. Nikhil Goyal (Education Activist) – Mind in a Box
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Apr 2, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Put 8 year old Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders together in a progressive 2nd grade classroom. What would happen? Since the dawn of compulsory schooling America has been experimenting on young minds with pedagogies and systems of control that arguably do more to prepare kids for a life of servitude than of independent thought and civic engagement. 20 year old Nikhil Goyal, author of Schools on Trial, argues that mainstream US public schools do more harm to children than good, and that we need to rethink them from the bottom up. Clips from comedian Paul F. Tompkins, Jesse Itzler, and Helen Fisher launch Goyal and host Jason Gots on a passionate & intense discussion that keeps coming back to our messed up education system and what we ought to do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Apr 2, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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