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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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Our current education system has some good qualities to it, but for a lot of kids, it doesn't fit with their learning style. John asks Danny about how his two children learn in very different ways. Plus, Jim Daly asks Cynthia Tobias how the education model in the United States came to be.
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0:00.0 | Learning styles. What kind of learning style does your child have or do your children have? We have six kids. And I'm thinking we've got a couple of them with ADHD. And so sitting and passively reading a book is probably not the best way for them to go. In fact, one of them has a reading disability of sorts. And so just sitting down and doing didactic learning, not so much. |
0:25.5 | A couple of them very creative. |
0:27.6 | They have, they're listening, and this was a big breakthrough for me, Danny. |
0:32.2 | They're listening, even though they're doodling or fidgeting on something. |
0:36.7 | Boy, I learned so much trying to raise six kids. |
0:39.9 | They're all doing super well right now. |
0:41.8 | I'm so glad. |
0:42.9 | But your goal as a mom or a dad is to figure out how is my child wired? |
0:46.9 | What's the best educational solution? |
0:49.7 | And Danny, you have two kids. |
0:51.7 | They learn differently, I'm guessing. |
0:54.2 | Yes, they do. |
0:55.2 | How does that work? |
0:57.5 | That's so true. |
0:58.7 | Great question. |
0:59.7 | And we can't parent them the same. |
1:02.1 | Now, I think if I recall correctly, your daughter, Lexi, is kind of more active learning. |
1:07.2 | More experiential in her learning. |
1:09.0 | She wants to experience it. |
1:13.8 | Tactile wants to have her whole body involved in the learning and where's my son he's much more visual he likes the charts the |
1:20.2 | visual aids that go with with whatever's being taught he loves to be in a see the lecture he |
1:26.1 | doesn't want to just read everything. He doesn't want |
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