(2011/09/26) In need of a new paradigm (Education)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 September 2011
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Summary
Edition #532
In need of a new paradigm
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Act 1: Are College Students Now ONLY Taught How To F**K The Little Guy - Lee Camp Air Date: 6-20-11
Song 1: Pride (In the name of love) - U2
Act 2: Heaping of scorn on teachers - Counterspin
Song 2: Honest man - Escape Directors
Act 3: Teachers: On The Frontlines Of Class War - Mumia Abu-Jamal Air Date: 7-08-11
Song 3: I gave you all - Mumford and Sons
Act 4: Unbelievably Cool Group From High School Still Unbelievably Cool - The Onion
Song 4: How it ends - Devotchka
Act 5: States budgeting for ignorance - Jim Hightower
Song 5: Ignore the ignorant - The Cribs
Act 6: Man Volunteers For $800,000 Pay Cut To Help Students - Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
Song 6: Gonna fly now - The Rocky Orchestra
Act 7: School Board Votes To Allow Teasing Of Area Sixth-Grader - The Onion
Song 7: Kids - MGMT
Act 8: Making Scholastic Inc. shape up - Jim Hightower Air Date: 9-2-11
Song 8: A little piece - The Jezabels
Act 9: Tha Gretest Challenje Faceng The Unitid Stayts - Lee Camp - Air Date: 6-29-11
Song 9: New slang - The Shins
Act 10: Spelling-Bee Winner Fails To Spell Way Out Of Schoolyard Beating - The Onion
Song 10: Me and Julio down by the school yard - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 11: High expectations lead to better results in education - Young Turks Air Date: 7-25-11
Song 11: Expectations - Belle and Sebastian
Act 12: Are Our Schools Crushing Creativity - Lee Camp Air Date: 7-06-11
Song 12: Vincent - Don McLean
Act 13: Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson
Voicemails:
Tar sands action campaign call to action - Andrew from Brooklyn, NY
Thoughts on how inflation is actually calculated - Alex from Redding PA
Thoughts on kids being used for politics - Keith from Chicago
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on why Pat Robertson is right
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Bestable Left Podcast with Coups today from comedian |
| 0:12.4 | Lee Camp, CounterSpin, Moumi Abu Jamal, The Onion Radio News, Jim Hightower, The Young |
| 0:17.2 | Turks, and Serkin Robinson. |
| 0:19.7 | Today's bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users is an animated video |
| 0:24.0 | version of Serkin Robinson's speech, and today's episode does contain profanity. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Lee Camp, and this is your moment of clarity. |
| 0:33.1 | Liberal arts colleges shudder their doors every day now. |
| 0:36.6 | Only 8% of students get degrees in humanities, whereas 22% get business majors. |
| 0:42.4 | Corporate for-profit universities burst out through our landscape like a heat rash. |
| 0:47.5 | Basically, caring about humanity is out, caring about business is in. |
| 0:53.1 | You could take such thrilling courses as how to fuck the little guy, how to screw the |
| 0:56.9 | little guy, where how to get the little guy to look the other way. |
| 0:59.6 | You screw him. |
| 1:00.6 | You'll learn how to put profit before people, how to do a profit-risk analysis in which |
| 1:05.8 | you'll learn that it's okay to give 10,000 people leukemia. |
| 1:09.5 | As long as the settlement you owe them later is less than the profit you've made by putting |
| 1:14.7 | that nuclear waste under Bubba's good time swimming all. |
| 1:19.3 | Besides, the kids who grow webbing between their fingers will be able to swim even faster. |
| 1:25.0 | They should be excited. |
| 1:27.0 | And we regret to inform you that the courses on morality and ethics have been discontinued |
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