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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

How to get into a famous college (E)

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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0:00.0

I was as shocked as you were when I heard the news.

0:05.0

I couldn't believe that the Ivy League had changed their policies, and now Harvard and

0:11.3

Princeton and the rest were going to accept students based on one single criteria, which

0:19.0

is how tall they are.

0:22.6

Because after all, it can be shown that throughout history, many of our leaders have been tall,

0:29.7

but the average height of a Nobel Prize winner is 3-4 inches higher than the average height

0:37.7

of that person's peers.

0:40.0

Height really?

0:41.4

Clearly, that has nothing to do with how you're going to do in college.

0:45.8

Hey, it's Aurov, and this is a special archive episode of Akimbo.

0:57.2

Obviously, I'm kidding.

0:58.6

This is the third and last of our three parts about my wife's own education.

1:04.3

Your mileage will vary.

1:06.2

Please take it with a grand salt, but I'm here to help us think about some of these issues.

1:12.4

I guess for students who are in a high school and they're going to eventually sit in

1:16.0

SAT and a high school exam, however that looks in different countries and systems, I guess

1:21.5

students have the option of going on strike during those because they know those tests

1:24.6

don't really prepare them for the real world, but that's not realistic or necessarily helpful.

1:29.4

They could just be a cog and do it, and that's also not very helpful.

1:34.5

I'd love to hear you talk about a few of your high school mathematics that you're currently

1:37.8

preparing your students to leave school, which includes getting through those ended

1:42.4

of high school exams, how would you talk about that with your students and in developing

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