Dumbing Us Down | Chapter 3
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
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🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Continuing with our book club!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, AJ Hoag, where |
| 0:06.4 | AJ is more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without |
| 0:11.6 | the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills. |
| 0:15.0 | Here's A.J. with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English, effortlessly. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I'm A.J. Hoag, the author of Effortless English, Learn to Speak English Like a Native. |
| 0:27.0 | Join my VIP program, Learn to Speak English, Confidently, fluently, and effortlessly, join my VIP program today at effortless English club.com. Effless, English Club.com. Live today, live on Facebook today. And with |
| 0:52.1 | today we are talking about chapter 3 |
| 0:57.4 | chapter 3 of our new book dumbing us down down is the book, the writer, the author is John Taylor Gatto. Today |
| 1:10.6 | chapter 3 of dumbumbing us down. |
| 1:14.0 | I'll just say hello everyone joining live now. |
| 1:17.0 | Hi everyone who's saying hello. |
| 1:20.0 | Lots of familiar names. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, Efertes English family. Hope you are doing well today. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi from Georgia Caucasus, hey, nice. |
| 1:32.0 | Okay, so today we're going to do chapter 3. Now chapter 3 of this book is actually quite different |
| 1:38.5 | than chapters 1 and 2. In chapters 1 and 2, two we got the big ideas at the beginning of the book. |
| 1:46.0 | Really in chapters one and in chapters two, |
| 1:49.0 | John Taylor Gatto gave us his big main ideas about school and education. |
| 1:56.3 | In chapter 3, he really just tells us a story. |
| 2:01.2 | He tells his personal story. He tells us about his childhood in the beginning, |
| 2:06.4 | growing up as a child. And then he tells us how he became a teacher. So let's get started shall we just saying hello hello |
| 2:18.4 | to everybody you know what we'll do we'll go through through the chapter, then I'll come back. |
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