(2012/09/17) Teachers make a goddamn difference (Education)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 September 2012
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Edition #644
Teachers make a goddamn difference
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The Experts Are WRONG and Here's How - LeeCamp - Air Date: 08-27-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Change the world - The Offspring
Ch. 4: Act 2: For-Profit Colleges Target Vets & Loans for Huge Profit - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 8-9-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Breathe me - Sia
Ch. 6: Act 3: How the TPP agreement is a danger to the US - Best of the Left Activism Update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Always - Switchfoot
Ch. 8: Act 4: Nation's Substitute Teachers Would Like To Know Who Threw That - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Let's Misbehave - Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
Ch. 10: Act 5: Student Loans Could Lead to Holocaust! says GOP Rep. - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-07-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Wake up - Arcade Fire
Ch. 12: Act 6: We Are Toxic Assets - J.A. Myerson for Citizen Radio
Ch. 13: Song 6: Common sense - Justin Mcroberts
Ch. 14: Act 7: Chicago teacher strike under attack with misinformation - CounterSpin - Air Date: 9-14-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Teach me something - Hot Tip
Ch. 16: Act 8: Teachers As Thugs - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 9-16-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Concrete bed - Nada Surf
Ch. 18: Act 9: Chicago Teachers Unfairly Vilified - The Progressive - Air Date: 9-14-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: The Legend of Zelda Main Theme Medley - Nintendo
Ch. 20: Act 10: What Teachers Make - Taylor Mali
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Ch. 25: Tammy Faye Baker on Jesus and the gays - Laurie from WA
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Ch. 26: Final comments on the morality of placating fundamentalists
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.6 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the award winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cook Today from comedian Lee Camp, |
| 0:13.2 | the Rachel Maddo show, a BestOfALeft activism update, the onion radio news, the majority |
| 0:17.7 | report, J.A. Myersson reporting for Citizen Radio, Counter-Spin, MuMia Abu Jamal, the progressive |
| 0:23.9 | and a performance by Taylor Mali. |
| 0:29.9 | The experts are wrong. |
| 0:32.1 | On what? |
| 0:33.1 | On everything. |
| 0:34.1 | The experts have their heads up their ass so far, they don't even know it's their ass, |
| 0:37.9 | they'll tell you it's just a dark smelly cave. |
| 0:40.8 | In the book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Dan Coniman talks about the cognitive |
| 0:46.3 | flaw called illusion of validity, in which experts trust their own judgment even when shown |
| 0:52.2 | they're often wrong. |
| 0:53.8 | Wealth advisors, for example, have been proven to do no better than random chance, and |
| 0:58.7 | the scariest part is that our trust of experts does not decrease even when facts prove that |
| 1:05.0 | they're f***ing morons. |
| 1:06.2 | I think this might be one of the ways that man is different from most other animals. |
| 1:10.4 | If you told a group of elephants that one elephant was an expert at finding water and then |
| 1:15.1 | he failed again and again, they would be like, f*** you, he sucks, I don't care where |
| 1:20.4 | he went to school. |
| 1:21.6 | Whereas mankind will go back to the same financial advisors, the same economists, the same leaders, |
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