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Today we're going to discuss how education is changing

acutely because of COVID, but broadly because of technology and evolving educational methods.

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If you're unfamiliar with that, in a nutshell, American public schooling is a system we imported from Prussia,

and the Prussians develop their system to reliably crank out soldiers and obedient citizens,

in a factory model, with some pretty heady authoritarian overtones.

Plus I talk about Charlemagne and colonial education and why British people say public

schools when they mean private schools. Why do they do that? I'll tell you.

So go get yourself the extended cut of today's pro. when they mean private schools. Why do they do that? I'll tell you.

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slash Andrew Heaton. My guest today is Lisa Snell. She is a senior education fellow at Stand Together, which is an education reform think tank organization, all that kind of of stuff we're going to be talking

today about education policy something that I'm very interested in and a friend of mine

Rob Raffity put me in contact with you because I ask Rob for help in that I'm interested with with you know kind of the schoolhouse and then one of our guys Horace Mann went over to Prussia and got really

impressed with the German Prussian factory model system of children and we decided we were going to do that over here and I guess that made sense for cranking out soldiers and the Industrial Revolution, but we're still using it.

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