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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Fireside Chat Ep. 255 — Is the World Better Because You're in It?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

PragerU

Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Is the world better because you’re in it? The self-esteem movement ushered in sentiments like this, but what are the consequences of heaping praise on children? Dennis argues that teaching children self-control is more important than self-esteem. He then answers your questions about the arts, children’s innocence, monogamy, and the relationship between work and doing what you love. Donate today to help keep PragerU podcasts and videos free! PrageruU.com/donate

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here with FireSight Chat number 253. 255.

0:07.7

That's cool. I have no idea how long auto is going to stay. We bribed him with some food.

0:16.2

However, the food was inhaled. I won't even say chewed inhaled within a few seconds.

0:24.8

He's sniffing for more food when he discovers there isn't any, he might leave.

0:30.4

But I think it's most critical that he'd be in at least at the beginning.

0:34.9

Then everybody feels life is normal.

0:40.5

So hi everybody, the FireSight Chat.

0:43.3

To review is spontaneous thinking from me to you and then taking your questions wherever

0:51.5

you are in the world. And it's a very special half hour each week.

0:59.2

The weeks go by fast, don't they? That's my theory. Life goes by by the week.

1:06.4

The day is a normal length, the month, the year, but weeks zoom by.

1:15.2

It's a subjective take on time. So I want to talk to you about a classroom sign.

1:27.5

I think is an elementary classroom sign that I saw in the New York Times just this past week.

1:35.6

It was an article on schools and had nothing to do with the sign.

1:39.2

But I just noticed it. I was riveted by it. It was one of these big signs in a classroom.

1:46.6

It had a drawing of a globe and around it were words and each letter was different color.

1:54.3

So that's why I assume it was elementary school.

1:58.5

And the, I don't remember the exact words, but essentially the wording was,

2:06.6

the world is better because you are in it.

2:12.0

So this was a message to, I don't know, fifth graders, eighth graders, somewhere between that.

2:18.6

So what age would that be? eighth grade is about 13. So, so between 10 and 13,

2:25.4

yeah, make that makes sense.

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