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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups Today from NetRoute's

Nation 2014, the David Pakman show disorderly conduct, radio dispatch, the Jimmy Dorch show,

activism from Best of the Left, and George Carlin.

And now today we not only ask that rare question, is our children learning, but also, how

are they learning?

When you look at how innovation is used in our language, it's to talk about machines,

right?

Apps, tech.

And that's actually quite fitting because at this point we've subverted everything that's

natural and necessary to this mechanistic view of the world.

When you look at how we talk about basic human needs food, shelter, water, you know, the

stuff that human beings need to keep alive, or education, an example I'm going to unpack

a little more, we're fully in this mechanistic place.

We used to have a metaphor for education, the young folks will think I'm crazy, that

was a garden, right?

So we would nurture the intellect, we would cultivate an interest.

The entailments of this metaphor, what it implies, is that children are organic matter,

and they're all different, and there are some known things they need in the analogy,

you know, soil, water or sunlight.

But there's this magical alchemy that happens below the soil that the educators are responsible

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